The border town occupies a vast area, larger than the national capital, and has more people than the national capital. Walking on the street, people are crowded with each other, and there are hawkers everywhere, and the lights are as bright as day. If you have seen the most lively scene.
However, what attracted him was not the crowds of people, but the strange attire of the people here. Many women were bare-chested and backless, and they dressed boldly. They seemed to have long been used to men looking at them without any shame. They even show off their proud figures generously. And some men have disheveled hair, wearing headbands made of various gemstones on their foreheads, beautiful big earrings on their ears, robes with no sleeves, and no trousers, showing bare arms and thighs, and some The man was even more exaggerated, with a piece of cloth wrapped around his waist.
In addition, some people's eyes are very strange in color, some are blue, some are green, and some are golden, as beautiful as gems.
Wu Ruo was so dumbstruck that she didn't know where to put her eyes.
Seeing him staring at others, Hei Xuanyi beside him raised his hand to cover Wu Ruo's eyes, and asked with a sour tone, "Where are you looking?"
Wu Ruo came back to his senses and pulled his hand: "Are you sure we are still in the kingdom of the dead?"
"This is the border town of the Necromancer Kingdom, and it happens to be the junction of a big country and five small countries around it. Businessmen from one of the countries have to pass through here when they want to do business in another country. Later, people from other countries knew about us. If you can’t leave the Necromancer Kingdom, you can treat this place as a trading place for the seven countries, so many businessmen come from afar to do business here.”
Wu Ruo was surprised: "Isn't it true that people from seven countries are doing business here?"
"Um."
"No wonder there are so many people here. I thought that the merchants in the Necromancer Kingdom wanted to send people from the ghost clan or use other people's bodies to do business in other countries." Wu Ruo quickly glanced at the bare-chested woman and asked curiously. : "Which country are those boldly dressed girls from? Men in their country allow them to dress so revealingly?"
"They are from Yanrong Country. Their national style has always been open. Every summer, women will wear robes made of very little fabric, and men will only wear a waist skirt." Hei Xuanyi calmly turned Wu Ruo's face to him , and then lowered his jaw so that Wu Ruo could only look at him and talk.
"What about people with other colored eyes?"
"They are from the blue-eyed country. Generally, their eyes are blue. Green and gold eyes indicate that the other party is a child of blue-eyed people and other countries."
"Which country is the man with the earring from?"
"Heavenly Holy Kingdom." Hei Xuanyi's tone became cold.
Wu Ruo was stunned: "You actually let them come here to do business?"
"There are things we need in the items they sell." Hei Xuanyi didn't want to mention too much about the Holy Kingdom, so he took Wu Ruo to inspect other places.
"There are so many countries around, has no one thought about taking advantage of the time when you can't come out during the day?"
"This is a cursed place, and if they invaded it, they would be cursed."
Wu Ruo blinked: "Has any country tried it?"
"Well, once a small country sent a team of 2,000 people to harvest our food and put their flags on our land. They stayed with us that night and did not leave. The next morning, When the sun rose, they were burned alive by the sun"
Wu Ruo imagined the scene of two thousand soldiers being burned to death, and couldn't help swallowing: "So, in fact, the cursed land is also beneficial, at least it doesn't take any effort, or even hands, to kill the people who invaded your land. People are gone."
Hei Xuanyi slightly bent his mouth: "You can say that."
"Will those who come here to do business be cursed?"
"As long as you don't want to take the land here, you will be cursed." Hei Xuanyi said here, and they happened to walk to the most prosperous road, so they asked, "Is there anything you want to buy?"
Wu Ruo looked at the people coming and going on the street, as if discovering a business opportunity, suddenly, her eyes sparkled: "Are the shops here expensive?"
"One million taels for a small empty shop."
"How small?"
Hei Xuanyi raised his finger and pointed to a small shop that could only accommodate six people.
"It's really small and expensive." Wu Ruo's eyes twitched: "How much does a small stall in the middle of the street cost?"
"Small stalls are only rented and not sold, and the price is 30,000 taels a year." Hei Xuanyi saw that he asked in such detail, and asked, "Do you want to buy a shop?"
"Yeah." Wu Ruo originally planned to buy a shop in the capital to sell medicine to earn a dowry for himself, but after coming to the border town, he found that this place is more suitable for business.
"What size shop do you want?"
Wu Ruo knew that it would be difficult to buy a shop if there were no contacts in the border town, so she said bluntly, "Small shops are fine, can you buy them for me?"
Wu Ruo smiled happily, and quietly hooked Gou Hei Xuanyi's palm with his fingertips. If it weren't for the crowds here and the many officials and guards behind him, he would definitely kiss Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi's black eyes welled up with a smile, and he quickly grabbed his restless fingers.
Officials walking behind all saw the intimate interaction between the two of them.
Lou Qingluo looked at their clasped hands and then looked away.
Hei Xuanyi brought Wu Ruo to the merchant house in the border town.
The business office manages the transactions in the border towns, and is mainly responsible for collecting rent, taxation, or investigating smuggling, supervision and other duties.
Hei Xuanyi came here because he had something to deal with. In order not to make Wu Ruo wait too boring, he was asked to take two guards around. Walk around the house.
Wu Ruo is happy that she doesn’t need to follow up with the merchants, so she can just get familiar with the environment here. There are many items that are commonly used in various countries, such as cloth, medicinal materials, magic tools, elixir, ingredients, etc., and what’s more special is that someone is selling them. law, carved runes, and slaves.
Suddenly, a roar came: "Stop, if you run again, we will deduct your passes for buying and selling here."
Wu Ruo looked back, and saw someone riding a monster flying towards him at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they rushed in front of him.
"My lord, be careful." The guard hurriedly pulled Wu Ruo aside.
The person riding the monster roared past them, knocking down several people one after another, and the servants behind him chased after them.
Wu Ruo looked at the figure riding away on the monster, and frowned. Judging from the figure of the person sitting on the monster, it looked like a deep chant, but the speed was too fast, and the light at night was not as bright as in the day. So, he couldn't see clearly.
After thinking about it, he thought it was impossible, he didn't think they were really destined to meet each other wherever they went: "What happened?"
The guard replied: "It should be people from the old clan who are smuggling and selling again."
Wu Ruo wanted to ask something else, so she heard someone beside him politely ask, "I don't know if you want to buy a formation or engrave a rune?"
Wu Ruo and the guard turned their heads to look, only to find that they were standing at the door of someone else's shop.
The shopkeeper continued to introduce them: "On the left is the selling formation, and on the right is engraved runes."
"Selling formations? Is it selling formations books?" Wu Ruo looked inside curiously. The shop was much larger than the small shop he had seen before, and there were more than a dozen customers standing inside.
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "There are also formation books, and there are also arranged formations."
When Wu Ruo heard this, she became even more curious: "How can you sell the formations you have arranged to others?"
The shopkeeper smiled and pointed to the yellow talisman pasted behind the counter. The paper was so wide that it took up the entire wall. It was like drawing a ghost-exorcism talisman. He drew a formation on the large yellow paper talisman: "We just need to sell the talisman to others. That's good, as long as the opponent uses a little spiritual power, he can drive the formation, and the effect is definitely as strong as the formation formed by himself."
"What if the paper suddenly breaks during the process?"
"We can use yellow cloth as a talisman, and then embroider it with cinnabar thread. In this way, it is not afraid of being broken or damaged by water and fire. It can be used several times in a row, but the price will be relatively high.
The shopkeeper's words seemed to remind Wu Ruo. Suddenly, he had a sudden inspiration. If he engraved some runes on the pill, would the medicine be more effective than ordinary ones? Just like the person on the right side of the shop engraved the runes on the magic vessel.
He couldn't help being overjoyed: "It's quite innovative, and makes me want to buy a formation from you too."
The shopkeeper happily asked: "I don't know what formation the young master wants?"
"Do whatever you want." Wu Ruo didn't really want to buy the formation, but the shopkeeper gave him inspiration, so he thought about patronizing the business here.
These words stumped the shopkeeper. People who came to buy formations in the past always had the formations they wanted to buy in their hearts, but now the other party said it was free, so what kind of formation should he choose for the other party
"My lord, here we have the Spirit Gathering Formation, the Ice Formation, the Golden Light Formation, the Blood Devouring Formation, the Nine Curving Formation...the Roaring Wind Formation, the Fierce Formation."
Wu Ruo listened patiently to the end: "What is Liezhen?"
"To put it simply, the formation of condensed raging fire can be used to control the enemy or make alchemy, it depends on how you want to use it."
Wu Ruo blurted out: "Can I keep warm?"
After asking, he regretted it.
It must have been that the people below the fifteenth floor were too cold to ask the stupid question of whether the formation can be used for heating.
The shopkeeper was stunned: "Heating? This, this shouldn't work, if people stay on it after activating the formation, they will definitely die, unless the opponent's spiritual power is higher than the spiritual power of the formation, then it should be able to keep warm."
Wu Ruo said: "Let's fight hard."
Anyway, buy it casually.
"Okay." The shopkeeper happily took out several fierce arrays of different shapes and sizes for Wu Ruo to choose from.
Wu Ruo bought all the yellow talismans he took out in one go.
The shopkeeper gave him the check with a smile.
Wu Ruo walked out of the shop, put the formation magic talisman into the space, and then looked at the road on the left and right and the shop opposite, hesitating where to look better, at this moment, a familiar figure walked by the shop opposite .