Kaleidoscope of mirrors and black robes.

In the Fox Lantern Ice Room, the whiteboard used to record information was not removed. Although the four inheritances had ended for almost a week, information exchange was a basic need of magicians. In the past, this need of Senluo magicians had been suppressed. Now that it had burst out, they would naturally not hold it back, just like when you like sex, you will find sex a nuisance.

And don't forget that the Senluo Wasteland is still in the war between the Qinri Alliance and the Four Pillars Gods, and Heipao Town is a well-connected transportation hub, with countless intelligence pouring into the town every moment. At the same time, the new situation in the virtual world also makes the magicians eager to explore and communicate with others.

"Why are there a few dishes missing? And why are all the prices increased?" The beautiful red-haired girl started complaining as soon as she sat down.

"Because the price of steak has increased." The peach-like female supervisor leaned lazily on the counter, the bulging chest was flattened by the table top, and the buttons on the clothes were like a lone warrior gritting his teeth, holding them up with great difficulty, as if they would burst in the next second.

"I'm eating the Lala Fat Set, not steak!"

"But I eat steak." The female manager shrugged: "If you don't want to, you can pay with gold coins. The price has been reduced."

Ash was speechless for a moment, and turned to look at Igula: "Look at the money for tonight's meal..."

"The budget remains unchanged." Igula said calmly.

"I don't really need to eat that much, but you see Xavi and Chikala still need to grow, they definitely won't be full..."

"Oh, don't worry about me." Harvey said, "If I really don't have enough to eat, I can eat Alice's food. The same goes for Chikara, he is Alice's slave anyway."

Alice... the corpse's food... I remember it was...

Ash covered his mouth to prevent himself from vomiting. Chikara was obviously dissatisfied with this but did not dare to speak. Gwen, who was drinking water, almost spit it out. Igula raised his eyebrows: "I didn't expect that necromancers are sometimes useful - your appetite has decreased now, right? It's better to eat less."

These days, the consumption upgrade in Heipao Town has been rising exponentially as if it had wings. Compared with the period before the war, the consumption level in Heipao Town has more than tripled.

The main reason is that gold and silver coins, as general equivalents of strategic materials, will naturally be hoarded and recycled when war breaks out, so the value of gold and silver coins still in circulation will skyrocket.

In other words, people with money don’t have to do anything during these days, and their assets will increase in value out of thin air depending on the situation!

——That’s the theory.

However, gold and silver coins are divided into silver coins and gold coins. Among them, gold coins are strategic materials for two-wing and three-wing magicians. Two-wing and three-wing magicians can be fed with gold coins, and two-wing and three-wing magicians are also the core combat power of each sect. Middle-level cadres.

On the contrary, silver coins can only feed a one-winged magician, and a one-winged magician can hardly play an important role in a war and basically acts as a logistics personnel.

On one side are the supplies needed by the logistics personnel, and on the other side are the supplies needed by the core combat power. The consumption rate of gold coins is naturally much greater than that of silver coins, and while the value of gold coins is rising, the value of silver coins is plummeting!

If the exchange rate of gold and silver coins in a peaceful country is 1:100, then in the past it was 1:150 in Senluo, and now it is almost 1:1000. It is not impossible that it will be 1:1500 in a few days!

Examples like Fox Lantern Ice House where the price of silver coins increased and the price of gold coins decreased were not uncommon in Kaleidoscope Black Robe Town. Even the street vendors of kebabs posted "super low prices" that could be settled with gold coins.

The reason is that silver coins are the main assets of ordinary people and one-winged magicians, and the consumption rate of silver coins is much lower than that of gold coins. During the war, gold coins are equivalent to high-end luxury goods, while silver coins are closer to "general equivalents", so they are naturally harvested.

If at the beginning the various sects were still tightening their gold coins for strategic reserves, now they are more or less speculating in gold. As long as they have the most gold coin reserves, they can use their economic advantages to defeat other sects in one fell swoop after the war. Everyone can see this opportunity!

However, before the economic victory comes, the first thing that will break out is an economic crisis. The fact that Fox Light Ice House is missing a few dishes is a sign that in a few months, Fox Light Ice House will close down and have nothing to sell - the silver coin has depreciated too much, and the production side would rather barter than accept silver coins!

If it happened in other countries, an economic crisis would be a serious social event. But in this wasteland of Senluo, where even economics has been cut off and there is no monetary system, the economic crisis is not worth mentioning. The various sects are closer to the idyllic feudal society, and they can be self-sufficient even without commercial trade. Just bear with it and it will pass. When the holy war is won, the whole Senluo will be ours!

Moreover, thousands and tens of thousands of people are dying on the front lines every day. Can the killing efficiency of the economic crisis be higher than that of the magician? How many divisions does the economic crisis have?

It's hard for Sanctuary magicians like Ash who have flexible employment.

After a high-intensity battle in the Dreamland, the three-winged spirits of Chikara, Igula, and Harvey seemed to have been hungry for a month. They ate almost a month's worth of gold coins to recover, and the gold coin inventory dropped sharply. And Ash also had two four-winged spirits, Heart Sword and Sword Scar. He didn't dare to feed them enough, and only fed them five gold coins a day to maintain basic combat power, but this also greatly increased the team's expenses.

Originally, daily life expenses could be covered with silver coins, but now that the silver coins have depreciated so much, they dare not spend gold coins indiscriminately, so naturally they can only tighten their spending.

However, the Fox Lantern Ice House was still quite lively at this time, with people talking and chirping. But the topic they were discussing was not the war, but the recent changes in the virtual world.

"My friend opened a vacuum door and fished out several large boxes of gold coins!"

"That's nothing. My friend even brought back a fish-slaying dragon from a Buddhist temple!"

"The whiteboard says that there is a high chance of treasures being found in the basement. Is that true?"

"But the probability of monsters appearing is also high. After my friend's sect opened the door, a group of monsters suddenly broke in. It took a lot of effort to suppress them."

Ash and the others pricked up their ears to listen to the discussions around them and looked at the new information on the whiteboard:

"Empty Gate Magic Spirit: It is easy to be dropped by virtual creatures such as the Fish-Slaying Dragon, Fox Lantern Dragon, Mud Fish Dragon, and White Speed ​​Dragon. Note: The drop rate may have increased only in the recent period of time."

"The same place, the same empty door magic spirit, can also lead to different places."

"At sea level, the magic power consumption of the Void Gate Spirit increases significantly, and it can often only open the Void Gate leading to the turbulent flow of the virtual world (suspected). The lower the distance from the sea level, the higher the stability of the Void Gate Spirit, and the higher the probability of leading to the real place."

"Using the Empty Door Jutsu in a place full of gold coins will make it easier to open the Empty Door leading to the gold coin warehouse (suspected)."

"After 12 o'clock at night, if you use the Kongmen Shuling, the probability of encountering the virtual world turbulence will decrease (suspected)."

"First, activate the empty gate leading to the virtual world turbulence 9 times on the ground, and then go underground and activate the empty gate magic spirit for the 10th time. There is a high probability that it will lead to the real place (suspected)."

On the whiteboard, except for the first two pieces of information which can be basically confirmed, the rest of the information is all "suspected" and full of metaphysical atmosphere.

And all this information revolves around a new magic spirit - the Kongmen magic spirit!

The reason why this magic spirit has received so much attention is not only because of its special use, but more importantly, its drop rate is extremely high, and it has flooded almost instantly. Except for Ash, who cannot enter the virtual world due to soul injury, and the illiterate Black Crow, everyone else has obtained this magic spirit in the virtual world exploration in the past few days. It is simply that nine out of ten magic spirits you see when you go out are Kongmen magic spirits.

Judging from the name, the correct use of this magic spirit should be to break through the empty door, such as creating a door in a wall or something like that - and it can indeed be used in this way. But soon, magicians discovered that if the empty door magic spirit is used on the air, a door leading to nowhere will be opened!

Although most of the time it is a virtual turbulence that can destroy everything, even if you hit the real place, the other side may be the earth, sea water, magma, ten thousand meters high in the sky, etc. This discovery alone has given the Kongmen Shuling many more uses - such as setting traps or as a defensive barrier.

But the most important thing is that the Kongmen magic spirit has the potential to achieve space travel!

A magical spirit that can continuously create random virtual channels!

Everyone can see the great value of this magic. In war, if you can open the door in a certain direction, you can directly behead the enemy headquarters; in transportation, if you can open the door in a certain direction, you can save infinite transportation links and complete the material exchange in one step!

This is similar to the space teleportation array presided over by the Saint Domain Magician, but the price is countless times lower than the space teleportation array! Moreover, space teleportation can only be activated by the Saint Domain Magician, while the One-Winged Void Gate Magic Spirit can be activated even by the Silver Magician!

Even though there are countless technical difficulties to overcome along the way, the sudden emergence of Kongmen Shuling is destined to become an opportunity for the technological explosion of the space faction.

In the past, the space faction developed slowly, mainly because the magicians had to wait until they reached the distant airspace before they could get started. It was a difficult subject and was extremely dependent on the explosive advancement of talented magicians.

Now with the low-end Kongmen Shuling, countless silver magicians can study space factions through Kongmen Shuling, and some magicians will even major in space factions in one or two wings! As the learning threshold is lowered, the next era will be the explosion of space magic, and the normalization of space transmission will also be rapidly promoted!

But compared to the grand narrative of the historical process, this empty door magic spirit has a more practical meaning to Ash and others:

go home!

No longer needing to search for the Gray Fox's legacy, they could rely on the magic of the void to open the void door leading to the gospel, the blood moon and even the stars!

But because of this, the atmosphere of this strange team composed of the Trickster, the Corpse Lover, the Crow Killer, the Four Pillar Gods' believers, the Four Pillar Gods' bishops, and the Four Pillar Gods' former leaders has begun to become subtle recently.

Soon, Ash finished the Lala Fat Set, but still felt half full, so he reached out to Igula. Igula gave him a purse, and Ash weighed it and found that the weight was a little wrong.

He raised the corners of his mouth slightly, motioning Black Crow to follow him, and then swaggered around the snack street and madly bought things. Black Crow was still wondering how Ash had so much money, but when he saw the gold coins in the purse, he immediately understood.

The two came to a familiar corner and ate back to back as usual. Ash no longer concealed his inner struggle, his eyebrows were almost knitted together, but it did not affect his eating efficiency.

Instead, Black Crow took the initiative to bring up the topic: "Ash, how many days have you been in Senluo?"

"More than two months?" Ash thought for a moment and sighed, "A lot of things happened. It feels like time has passed so slowly."

"So do you like it here?"

"Are you serious about this question?"

"Of course." Black Crow said calmly: "I have never heard of it, nor have I been to other countries. I am not a magician, and I cannot enter the virtual world... I have lived in this wasteland since I was born. My life has been bound to this land."

Ash also felt that he was a bit rude. He calmed down and said slowly: "Compared to the countries I have been to before, Senluo is too chaotic and disorderly. There are constant religious disputes and no unified regime... All forces are using the Gray Fox heritage to unscrupulously conquer each other. I really don't like it here."

"But," he said, "the Senluo people are the most vigorous group of people I have ever seen. Although they are affected by various factors such as environmental oppression, religious guidance, and life span restrictions, almost all Senluo people have persisted in those illusory great ideals, even the believers who have now surrendered to the Four Pillars of Gods - they were also killed by the Four Pillars of Gods after their ideals were shattered."

"Isn't this very common?" Black Crow asked doubtfully.

"If you have been to Blood Moon and Gospel, you will understand how different you are." Yaxiu said, "Blood Moon, Gospel, Senluo... It is actually difficult for me to evaluate the pros and cons of your three countries. Blood Moon is obsessed with entertainment, and civilians live a peaceful life, but most people face the most brutal elimination in their infancy; Gospel is good in everything, that is, from the moment a person is born, his future is already determined and clearly arranged; Senluo is not good in anything, but each of you is trying your best to bloom. Unless Dafa is destroyed, it is difficult for me to see emotions such as anxiety, hesitation, and confusion in you. Everyone is striving towards their ideals and beliefs. If the people of Blood Moon become numb in entertainment, and the people of Gospel cannot step out of their comfort zone in happiness, then the people of Senluo are shining in suffering."

"Even if the Dharma is destroyed, the brilliance of some people will not be covered by the night." Ash paused and said, "I'm talking about you, Tamashi."

Black Crow replied with a nasal voice: "Yeah."

"The Transcendent Sect, the Twin Sect, the Bronze Law Sect, and even the Holy Fire Temple... Although I don't agree with the practices of these sects, I respect their ideals. If everyone is running around for money, women, power and other desires, then this world would be too boring."

Ash looked up at the night sky and said softly, "Although there are no stars in the night sky, you are all looking up at distant ideals. By the way, do you know which sect's ideals I like the most?"

Black Crow immediately said, "Kill all the crows?"

"It's the Holy Fire Temple."

Black Crow: "(°ー°〃)?"

"Because I really like the ideal of the Fire Cat Dharma: to allow ordinary people to control magic spirits." Ash smiled and said, "It challenges the foundation of the entire magician system and threatens the interests of the magician class. In a country, this ideal would only be laughed at. Only in the Senluo Kingdom can it become the common goal of magicians across the country. The Fire Tribulation Temple wants to pursue the glory of the Fire Cat God Age, which is really attractive to me."

"If I hadn't lost to Silver Lantern, if I could continue to pretend that the First Gospel ruled the Fire Temple, maybe..." Ash shrugged: "But there is no such if."

"So, I don't like the land of Senluo." He concluded, "But I like a certain era, a certain ideal, or... a certain person in Senluo."

"Actually, you don't have to take my feelings into consideration." Black Crow said, "I'm just looking for a topic to chat with you."

"Go ask Igula, when have I ever taken other people's feelings into consideration?" Ash snorted and asked curiously, "But why are you suddenly interested tonight? In the past, you rarely brought up topics or even participated in discussions. I always felt that you were staring at Igula's neck, trying to find the best angle to chop his head off..."

Black Crow said, "Because you never took the initiative to mention when you plan to leave."