Chapter 77
Pastoral Town is a large A+ instance, mixed with several small D-level instances.
Recently, several players from the guild came to challenge me, and they started to gather information in the town as soon as the sun rose.
Two or three teams were having trouble getting along with each other and almost came to blows in front of a small shop in Pastoral Town.
A circle of monsters gathered around to watch the fun. There were all kinds of strange monsters with fish heads and human bodies, green ears and thin poles, and hands and feet covered with vines. They were whispering with green eyes.
"Fight, fight!"
"Whoever loses later will be my lunch, hehehehe!"
The two players who were causing the trouble were so angry that they were pulled back by their respective team captains and reluctantly let each other go.
"Just wait for me!"
After making the harsh remark, a player turned around and almost bumped into a child who appeared out of nowhere.
"Are you sick? Don't you even look at the road when you walk?!"
The player, who was still angry, saw Xingnuo holding two long bread sticks, and slammed his bread to the ground with a wave of his hand.
Xingnuo quickly picked up the bread he had bought, raised his head angrily, and his little curly hair exploded.
"What are you doing? Why are you knocking over my bread?"
Lu Qi, who went to buy water, squeezed through the monster pile. Seeing Xingnuo being bullied, he used his little head to hit the player directly.
The player saw the little brat overestimating himself and bumping into him, so he sneered and stretched out his hand to push him away, but found that the child had avoided his action one step ahead.
The player's abdomen was hit so hard that it felt like a lump of iron, and he cried out in pain immediately.
"You little brat! Why are you so hard headed?!"
The player was completely annoyed and was about to take out props to deal with the two kids, but was stopped by the captain.
"That's enough! Why bother with two kids? Business is more important. Don't let others get ahead of you!"
The captain pulled the cursing player away, and Xingnuo, holding the soiled bread, snorted loudly at the other party.
"Bad guy!"
Worse than the weird monsters in this town!
Lu Qi held Xingnuo's hand, walked to the street of the town, and started to eat dry bread.
There was no other food in the town, and even bread was very expensive.
Xingnuo ground the bread bit by bit with his teeth, swallowed a mouthful with difficulty, and sighed.
"I wonder if anyone has seen Qingqing Yiyi Xiaopang."
Lu Qi didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. He chewed the bread with his teeth crunching and said incoherently:
"We can pay the shop owner and ask him."
The reason why Pastoral Town, a small town on the edge of the Loess Plateau, can prosper is purely due to its commercial intermediary nature.
There are all kinds of shops here, and you can get any information you want as long as you have money.
Xingnuo became even more worried when he saw this. He used his little teeth to grind off a little bread and propped up his little face to look into the distance.
"But we have no money."
Lu Qi only had two star coins on him, one was used to pay for the hotel accommodation, and the other was used to buy bread and water.
After chewing the dry and hard bread in a few bites, Lu Qi clapped his hands and handed the water bottle to Xingnuo.
"It doesn't matter. Let's go find those human players. They have money. We can steal it."
Xingnuo took a few sips of water and almost choked himself after listening to Lu Qi's words.
After coughing twice, Xingnuo shook his head vigorously.
"No, that's not our money. We can't be bad kids."
Lu Qi's face became more serious after hearing this. After thinking for a long time, he spoke again:
"It's okay, I'll go and grab it. Xingnuo, you be the good boy and I'll be the bad boy."
Xingnuo had a confused look on his face and let out an "ah", as if he was almost confused by Lu Qi's logic.
Holding Lu Qi's cold hand, Xing Nuo hurriedly stopped him, fearing that Lu Qi would really be desperate and try to rob the money.
Lu Qi and I are both so short, so we will definitely be beaten badly and can only hug each other and cry.
"Xiao Qi, let's think of another way."
Xingnuo rummaged through his pocket and found a small frog toy that his brother had stuffed into his pocket when he went to school this morning.
"Otherwise, let's sell this little frog!"
Maybe someone will like this ugly little frog!
Lu Qi obviously still hadn't given up on the idea of robbing directly, but he didn't want to make Xingnuo unhappy, so he could only nod.
"Okay, go find those humans and sell them to them at a high price!"
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The human player was gathering information in the town while completing a related D-level copy.
Coming out of the dungeon in a slightly dishevelled manner, the players supported each other and sat down in front of the only bread shop in the town.
"I've had enough of this crappy bread! I'm going to have a feast when I get back to Central City!"
"How about we go to the central building and enjoy ourselves? I heard the service there is so good it's like heaven!"
Just as the players were fantasizing, two children staggered past them.
The red-haired girl was holding her prop weapon, and when she saw the curly-haired Xingnuo, she called out to him.
"Curly, come here."
Xingnuo said "oh" and walked over slowly with the bread he had not finished eating.
"Sister, are you looking for me? What's the matter?"
The red-haired female player reached into her item waist bag and pulled out a small medicine bottle.
"Here you go. Did that big guy hurt you this morning?"
The red-haired female player saw two children, who were not sure whether they were humans or monsters, living alone in a small town. She felt pity for them for an inexplicable moment and threw the unneeded medicine bottle to Xingnuo.
Xingnuo shook his head and did not take the bottle of medicine from his red-haired sister.
"I'm fine."
Xingnuo dodged quickly at that time and was not hit by the big guy.
Xingnuo handed the bread to Lu Qi beside him, rummaged through his arms and took out the little frog.
"Sister, do you need a little frog? It's very cheap."
Xingnuo doesn't have anything valuable on him. The bread and water definitely can't be sold, and the small brooch has too low a presence and is always ignored by Xingnuo.
After counting, the only one left was the little frog toy that Chen Baizhou made for more than two hours last night following the video tutorial.
Although he was reluctant, Xingnuo knew that this was a critical moment and they needed money.
When they get back, Xingnuo will explain everything to his brother. His brother has a good temper and will definitely forgive him!
There was a boy in a black hat sitting next to the red-haired female player. He sneered when he saw the clown frog.
"It's so ugly, where did this kid's toy come from?"
This kind of little frog toy is usually sold at two-yuan stalls on the street.
Seeing that the player sister didn't seem to want to buy it, Xingnuo clenched his fists and tried his best to sell his little frog.
"This was made by my brother. It took him a long time! The little frog is so good that all the kids in the kindergarten were fighting for it, but I didn't give any to them!"
This morning Xingnuo went to kindergarten and put the little frog on the table. It immediately became a very popular little frog!
Every time a child comes over, he or she reaches out and touches the little frog that jumps around.
Xingnuo protected the little frog very well and put it in his pocket, not wanting to take it out for other children to play with.
The boy in the black baseball cap pulled the corner of his mouth, as if he was amused by Xingnuo's sales pitch.
He raised his head and saw a long scar on his face, which ruined his handsome face.
"Kid, how much is your little frog?"
Lu Qi next to him jumped out immediately and gestured a number.
"Five hundred."
Boy in baseball cap: “…”
"Star Coin?"
There seemed to be a hint of disbelief in his tone, and the boy crossed his arms and laughed out loud.
Players' points and star coins are exchanged at a one-to-one ratio. Five hundred star coins equal five hundred points!
These 500 points can be used to rent a house in a remote area of the central city for two months.
The red-haired female player looked at Xingnuo's fair and tender appearance, but she was not angry. She reached out and pinched his smooth little face.
"Five hundred is too much."
The prices in the dungeon are very expensive, and players need to save money in case they need it.
Xingnuo opened his mouth, hesitated for a while, and whispered:
"Three hundred is fine."
If there are fewer, they won’t have enough to find out the news.
The man in the baseball cap saw the child looking at him with big wet eyes nervously and expectantly, and he sighed and inexplicably softened his heart.
"Three hundred is fine." The man in the baseball cap offered to buy it.
Seeing this, the red-haired female player sighed and did not stop it.
However, a team of players nearby saw it and immediately shouted in excitement.
"Brother Zhuo is so generous! He deserves to be one of the top few on the list!"
Three hundred points to buy a small broken frog, so straightforward, just pay for it!
The male player in the baseball cap handed a few star coins to Xingnuo, who took the ugly little frog.
"Okay kid, let's go."
Later, when the man in the baseball cap challenged the S-level copy and was about to lose, a little frog fell out and saved him.
At this time, he didn't know what the future would hold. He just sat on the side of the street and watched the two little ones walk away.
The man in the baseball cap reached out his hand, flicked the ugly little frog, and couldn't help laughing.
Xingnuo, who got the star coins, jumped and danced with shining eyes, holding Lu Qi's hand and jogging to the shop on the street.
"Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi, we are rich!"
You can buy the news about them!
Lu Qi also laughed, although his smile was stiff, and he didn't have the joy that Xing Nuo had, which made little flowers bloom on his head.
"We go to the shops with blue signs. We can buy a lot of information in those shops."
Lu Qi seemed to be very familiar with various copies and pulled Xingnuo to the nearest shop.
The shop owner was a monster with horns on his head and eyes bigger than copper bells.
When the boss heard the two children asking for information, he still seemed to be in a bad mood after taking the money.
"You said those kids were sold to the newly opened amusement park."
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