Chapter 161
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." Fu Le was woken up by the little prince's slap.
Upon waking, I noticed a rumbling sound approaching from afar.
Fu Le leaped up and, carrying the little prince, rushed out of the forest.
Are they all going crazy? Why are they all chasing after her? Are they trying to stop people from cultivating?
When Fu Le, who had escaped, appeared outside the forest, he saw a dark mass of tall, strong, human-faced horse-beasts less than a hundred meters ahead.
Fu Le; !!!
Little Prince: Squeak, squeak, squeak...
Waving his claws, the little prince bared his teeth in anger, looking fierce and ruthless.
Hearing the little monkey's words, Luhe stomped his horse's hooves in displeasure, snorted twice, and shouted, "Monkey, if you dare to utter another curse, I'll skin you and make you into a war drum!!"
The Little Prince: Squeak squeak!!!
Fu Le: !!!
It can speak human language, and judging by the little monkey's condition, it can even understand monkey language!
"You're human!! How did you enter the orc territory?!" The voice of the long-haired black orc came, this time directed at Fu Le.
"It's an opportunity. I'll only be here for six months, six months." Being able to communicate made Fu Le breathe a sigh of relief; he had been worried that he wouldn't understand.
"Opportunity? From where?" Luhe, the leader of the horse-beastmen, asked seriously.
Fu Le didn't know how to answer when suddenly a prickling sensation ran down his back, and the protective shield on his earring was activated.
'Kong!!' A heavy blow slammed into the protective shield, causing sparks to fly everywhere.
Fu Le raised his hand and launched a fireball at the person who had attacked him.
"Stop!!" A roar came from the forest, and at the same time a huge water ball flew by, hitting the basketball-sized water ball in the face.
This time, Fu Le saw clearly that what attacked her was actually a hedgehog over a meter tall and two or three meters long!! A hedgehog that spits fireballs!! The one who pounced on her fireballs was a half-orc with the face of an old man, but whose entire body was made of hedgehog quills.
Holy crap!!!
The appearance of these beastmen is too eye-catching. Could it be that all beastmen can transform into half-human beings? Fu Le was shocked when he compared them to animals from Earth.
"Human, where did you come from?! You actually formed a pact with the monkey clan!! How dare you!!!" the old hedgehog bared his teeth and shouted fiercely.
Behind the two hedgehogs, one old and one young, were about a dozen giant hedgehogs, all of them young males with pairs of dark eyes staring intently at her, looking rather eerie.
Immediately afterwards, there was another commotion in the jungle, and a new group appeared: foxes!! Human-headed fox-like beasts!! Then came tiger-like beasts!! Sheep-like beasts…
In just over ten minutes, Fu Le and the Little Prince saw more than twenty species of orcs emerge from the forest, each group having a leader and more than ten bodyguards. Upon their appearance, they all asked her where she came from and how she entered the orc territory.
In fact, Fu Le himself also wanted to know how he entered the orcish territory.
"The Little Prince and I formed a bond; it was his own initiative. He likes me and wants to be our partner, so what's wrong with that? Besides, what does it have to do with you? You hedgehogs hurt people on sight; are you warmongers?"
The old hedgehog seemed angered by Fu Le's words, glaring at him coldly, "You human, cunning and treacherous! It was right that we attacked first, but that's because you sneaked into our hedgehog cluster's territory without permission. You intruded into our land without permission, which is a provocation. We had every reason to fight you, but you turned around and almost hurt our juniors!!"
Fu Le and the Little Prince exchanged a glance, both feeling somewhat embarrassed. "We're new here too. When the horse-beastmen chased us, we panicked and ran in a panic. Um, I apologize to you now, okay? I won't hold you responsible for starting the fight. I'm sorry, we really didn't know anything about it."
The old hedgehog snorted coldly, but didn't press the matter further. He simply turned his head away, unwilling to look at her.
"Who exactly are you?" Luhe, the leader of the horse-beastmen, stepped forward and repeated the question.
"I am a dimensional merchant, and I have come with a mission!!" She didn't sense much malice, but mostly wariness, fear, and probing. So, Fu Le gave herself a new identity.
She's traveling around with her body like this, seemingly doing the work of a dimensional merchant.
"A dimensional merchant? Are you here to trade with us?" the orc frowned. "What did you bring?"
When the horse-orc asked this question, all the orcs began to whisper among themselves. The name "plane merchant" was too mysterious. Could he be an emissary of the beast god?
Fu Le: So easily fooled?!
Fu Le could clearly feel the change in the gazes around him, which mostly turned into curiosity, and he was overjoyed.
Beast is indeed very innocent.
"What proof do you have that you're a dimensional merchant?" the Hedgehog Elder asked, frowning.
“Mesospace.” Fu Le raised his hand, and a water glass landed in his hand.
"It's just a space, who doesn't have one?" Disdainful voices came from around her. The next second, meat or fruit appeared in the hands of the beastmen who were closer to her.
Fu Le: !!!
No wonder the shuttle came here; there must be a lot of mesenchymal stones in this dimension.
Hey, shuttle, are you gone?
Suddenly, I remembered that the shuttle hadn't spoken since I arrived.
"Shuttle, you haven't left yet?"
'I'm leaving soon...'
Fu Le: ...
Why are you taking your time leaving this time?
The shuttle did not respond.
"You have meat, so do you have this?" Fu Le opened his palm, revealing a pair of stainless steel scissors that made a snip-snip sound.
"What is this?" a beast asked in confusion.
"Scissors, you can cut hair and trim nails." Fu Le plucked a long blade of grass from the ground, then slashed it with the scissors, cutting it in two.
All the beasts: ...
"That's nothing special. We can use wind blades, fire, or even bone knives," a beast scoffed.
Fu Le: ...
"How about this?" He pulled out a large piece of silkworm beast cloth, and then started digging. There was a large aluminum basin, an iron bucket, a water ladle, a kitchen knife, a fork, a fruit knife... a bunch of kitchen utensils. The beastmen stared at him, and accidentally brought out a few cloth dolls.
"Hey, what's this?" A female fox leaped out, walked towards the green rice dumpling doll, and picked it up.
“These are dolls, toys that human children play with, and these too…” The toys she collected were piled up like a mountain, and she casually pulled out more than ten of them.
"Hey, let me see, what's this? It even has wheels." Another orc walked over.
Once there's one, there's two and three. As Fu Le pulled out more and more things, more and more beastmen appeared around him. Even Lu He came over, staring intently at the toy electric car in the hedgehog beastman's hand.
Aside from toys, many orcs are also interested in daily necessities, since they use stone tools and mecha spaces. They've never seen aluminum containers like these before. Then there are kitchen knives and scissors, which some orcs are quite interested in.
With a casual turn of his head, Fu Le saw a horse-orc chop off half of its long black hair with scissors, then stand there stunned, its eyes turning red.
Fu Le: ...
I turned my head away; I couldn't bear to look.
"You really are a dimensional merchant." Luhe looked at Fu Le in astonishment. At this moment, he had no doubt about Fu Le's identity, because the things she took out were indeed unprecedented.
“Absolutely genuine. Yes,” Fu Le said with a smile.
A story about setting up a stall in another world... Hmm, that's quite interesting.
Or, we could bring more modern goods in the future and sell them to other dimensions?
"What do you want to exchange with us?" Luhe asked Fu Le. The things she took out, although not necessities, were still good to take back to amuse the children. The horse children didn't have such fun things.
"What do you have?" This was also what Fu Le was curious about.
"Our horse-beast tribe has mare's milk wine, spirit fruits, lingzhi mushrooms, and many medicinal herbs. Our tribe is the best at cultivating medicinal herbs."
Fu Le: That's a great idea!!
"Sure, do you exchange supplies here using currency or supplies?"
"Currency? What is currency?" Luhe didn't understand.
Fu Le: Well, all we have left are supplies.
"Do you have any Ganoderma lucidum with you? Let me check its medicinal properties."
Luhe nodded, and as he raised his hand, Fu Le felt a sudden darkness before his eyes and was startled. When he looked up, he found that Luhe was holding a large brown umbrella, as thick as an arm, with clear patterns on it.
This one, over a meter in diameter, looks like a Ganoderma lucidum!
Fu Le was stunned for a few seconds before taking it and examining it closely. "Heze meat-shaped Ganoderma lucidum, a miraculous hemostatic agent. It has an immediate effect on internal bleeding; regular consumption can prolong life."
I took a deep breath. Oh, this is good stuff...it smells so good.
"Have you planted a lot of these?" Fu Le asked tentatively.
Luhe shook his head. Fu Le was a little disappointed. Could it be as rare as a hundred-year-old ginseng on Earth?
"There are only three mountains. We use them to trade with other tribes for food to get through the winter."
"Cough cough cough cough..." Fu Le choked on his saliva, and Lu He's face changed color from coughing.
"Are you alright, dimensional merchant?"
Fu Le shook his head. "It's alright, I'll take this Ganoderma. As for the ones on the ground, I can give you whatever you want. Um, I want the Ganoderma from your tribe. What kind of food do you want in exchange?"
Luhe picked up a large aluminum basin, ten iron buckets, and ten toy excavators from the ground. "Are these okay?"
Seeing what he picked up, Fu Le's facial muscles twitched. What kind of worthless things did he pick up? He felt like he was committing fraud.
Seeing Fu Le's unpleasant expression, Lu He thought he had taken too much, so he put down ten more iron buckets. "Is this all you have?"
Fu Le's face darkened further. Lu He: ...
"Take these ten buckets, these ten basins, these toys, and this whole pile." Fu Le picked them up one by one and threw them to Lu He, afraid that he would take too little. After all, the meat Ganoderma was really too good. Even a shrewd merchant like her would feel guilty exchanging it for so little.
Luhe was stunned by Fu Le's actions. After he came to his senses, his attitude towards Fu Le changed drastically. "You are an honest businessman." After saying that, he put away everything that Fu Le had thrown to him and understood why Fu Le looked so upset.
She could have been a shrewd businesswoman, but she's so honest; she's a very good interdimensional merchant.
This scene was also witnessed by the leaders of other tribes. After whispering among themselves for a while, they walked towards Fu Le. The old leader of the Hedgehog tribe smiled, and most of the wariness in his eyes had disappeared. "Dimensional merchant, our tribe needs seeds. Do you have any fruit tree seeds? We will exchange them with you for spirit rice. Our tribe is good at growing spirit fruits and weaving cloth. Our cloth is impervious to swords and spears, and water and fire."
Seeds!! Yes, we absolutely need them!!
Fu Le's eyes lit up, and he took out the seeds he had brought from the Spirit Realm. There were over a thousand kinds of spirit fruit trees, each with tens of thousands of seeds. The seeds were plump and had a very high survival rate. "I brought some. I can give you fifteen of each kind. I guarantee they are all spirit fruits. I also have ordinary fruit trees, but they are not spirit fruits. Do you want them?"
"Yes, we want them all! We want all kinds of seeds!" The hedgehog leader looked excitedly at the seed in Fu Le's hand.
“Interdimensional merchant, why don’t you set up camp here? We can sit down and chat. Our horse-beast race also needs seeds, spirit plant seeds. I wonder if you have any?”
"Yes, I have them." Fu Lele was in full bloom. Fruit tree seeds and spiritual plant seeds were all bought at a high price and piled up into a small mountain in the container. She accepted them all without hesitation.
"Dimensional merchants, we..."
Most animals are capable of planting; they love seeds more than the household items that Fu Le brought out.
Fu Le saw the hedgehog tribe's cloth. The cloth was colorful and beautiful, and it had a shimmering light that complemented the colors of the cloth, making it dazzlingly beautiful.
Fu Le withstood everything – swords, spears, water, fire – and miraculously, he defended against them all. "Then how do you cut such sturdy cloth?" he asked.
"We have specially made mining needles and mining knives." The hedgehog leader pulled out a series of black needles, each over ten centimeters long, and a mining knife over a meter long, also black. They looked like raw stone tools, but these tools could cut through this cloth that was impervious to blades, spears, water, and fire. This ore is amazing!
"Would you be willing to trade this kind of ore?" If she accepted it, she could give it to the country to make weapons; if she didn't have the chance to give it away, she would build a mountain.
“Yes, this kind of ore is very common in the orc realm, it’s everywhere, and each of our tribes can contribute a mine,” the hedgehog leader said sincerely.
Fu Le's breath hitched; such a wonderful thing was everywhere.
The orcs are using it to make knives? What a waste! What a waste!!!
"I want this ore, all of it!" Fu Le shouted.
The hedgehog leader frowned; this ore seemed to be very useful to her.
Fu Le: Ouch... We're doomed, we've been exposed...
We need to fix it, we need to fix it quickly.
"This ore can actually be used to make sharp knives. I think it's great. I'll take it back and make knives to sell in other dimensions. That way, our dimension can have a lot more income."
Knife making? Well, that makes sense; they make knives to sell, don't they?
"Isn't this a knife too?"
"This one is made of stainless steel. It's fine for cutting grass, fruit, and meat, but it's definitely not suitable for cutting this kind of fabric..."
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