"Five thousand."
Sonalen pondered for a long time and gave a price that he thought was more suitable.
He had no concept of the purchasing power of money in another continent, and it was the woman beside him who told the value of this gold coin.
"I need 5,000 gold coins like this." Sonalen stared at V when he made this request, but unfortunately V was wearing a mask, so he couldn't judge the change in V's mood from his expression.
As for Qiao Xiu, who dubbed V, he coughed lightly to prevent himself from laughing out loud.
The purchasing power of 5,000 gold coins in Nolan is already quite terrifying. A normal family has so much savings that they don't need to work for almost a lifetime.
For Qiao Xiu, it can only be regarded as daily pocket money, but Qiao Xiu hardly spends much money to buy things in daily life.
"It's too much... It's worth my ten years' salary!" Ciri's opinion was completely different from that of Joshua.
Even after marriage, Ciri was a strong girl, and all her daily money was earned by working for Qiao Xiu.
By the way, Ciri's remuneration hasn't risen for a long time, so this also leads to the girl's deposit being around a few hundred gold coins.
"It's not too much, but the price still needs to be suppressed."
Joshua knew that now was not the time to show off his assets, even though money was just a number for Joshua.
After a short thought, Qiao Xiu directly pressed the speaking button again.
"The price of just a piece of information seems too expensive, Mr. Sonalen." V said with some embarrassment.
"This information is related to the survival of your human world. I don't think it's expensive."
Sonalen was not in a hurry, he even poured himself a glass of wine and planned to talk slowly.
"Then what method do you have to prove that your information is true, not just a joke?" V asked again.
"I mentioned the core of this workshop before. Without my help, you wouldn't be able to find it there."
Sonalen drank all the wine in the cup, picked up the bottle again and poured it directly into the cup until it overflowed.
This gray fog source doesn't seem to be using alcohol to strengthen his courage, he probably enjoyed everything he could enjoy before running away.
"You have succeeded in intriguing my interest, Mr. Sonalen... But do I need a deposit before seeing that so-called core?"
Qiao Xiu was too lazy to spend time on bargaining. The previous proposal was just to let the other party understand that "I don't have much money".
"Deposit? Of course... But I don't have much time to wait for you here. You have to collect it within a day after you go back."
Sonalen is not optimistic about the situation in the city.
"Mr. Sonalen, you see... I'm actually a skilled magician too. I want Miss Apple to stand on the other side. I need to cast a little magic."
V did not intend to leave, and made a gesture to Miss Aibo to stand aside, the gray fog girl actually stood obediently to the side of the corner.
The silver-white inscription representing space surged on V's fingertips.
Qiao Xiu didn't need to go to Nolan's gold depository, and collected 5,000 gold coins directly in the Hearthstone Tavern. After all... Where are the gold coin-eating monsters like Hearthstone card drawers.
During this period, I instructed Mrs. Marina to find a cloth bag that could put people in.
Half of the five thousand gold coins were put into a cloth bag and tied up under the action of the inscription of order.
Elder Quitoan drew a small teleportation array directly on the floor of the room. After confirming the coordinates through the first teleportation, he accurately teleported the bag of gold coins to V this time.
The cloth bag filled with more than 2,000 gold coins fell heavily on the ground, making a crisp sound.
V didn't reach for the cloth bag, because it was too heavy to carry with V's phantom body.
"The deposit you want is here, Mr. Sonalen." V untied the rope on the cloth bag, revealing the golden coin that radiated golden light inside.
Sonalen stood up directly from the sofa and walked towards V, while V politely stepped back to leave space for Sonalen to check.
The woman also followed behind Sonalen, and she saw that a large pile of gold coins piled up in the cloth bag was obviously uncontrollable.
Not many human beings can keep calm in front of a mountain of money. In the past, one of Ciri's dreams was to roll on the money pile.
"Yes... It's true." The woman's voice also had a trembling feeling. She may have never seen so much money in her life.
The arm of Sonaron's left hand suddenly twisted and distorted, and turned into a tentacle again, which directly swallowed all the gold coins in the cloth bag into his body.
It should be said that... it was stored in his own body.
This is really a handy ability.
"follow me."
Sonalen is also a person who knows how to do business. Compared with the current situation, he continues to be loyal to his eldest sister and has a good relationship with this wealthy masked geek. Obviously, it will be more useful for him in the future.
V followed Sonalen who walked out of the room, and Aibo followed after hesitating for a while, but the moment she stepped out of the door, the orange cat rushed towards her.
Before Ai Bo could react, the orange cat got into the clothes on her chest again.
"you… "
Ai Bo pulled up the front of his shirt with his hand and looked at the orange cat lying on his chest, and the orange cat made a booing gesture with his paws.
"..." Ai Bo gritted his teeth and had to keep up with V and Sonalen without saying a word.
…
Sonalen took V all the way around the production space in the alchemy workshop, and came to a room in the depths of the workshop that was blocked by a large number of chains.
The structure here is a bit like a prison.
The gray mist spread wantonly on the ground, and the low voice of some monster could be vaguely heard in the darkness.
The ground suddenly lit up with inscriptions... Ai Bo tensed up the moment he saw these inscriptions.
"Don't worry, my sister, these are just teleportation inscriptions."
Sonalen activated the inscription, an unknown teleportation array lit up instantly, and the surrounding scenery quickly changed.
When the light came on again, what appeared in front of Joshua... was a door, a door made of jet-black light.
"Mr. Sonalen, is this the portal of your world?" Joshua asked directly through V what Sonalen was about.
"Our world... the world of consciousness? It's too easy to define this thing in terms of doors."
Sonalen walked a full circle around the sphere of light that radiated jet-black light.
"The purpose of this thing is to break down the barriers between the real world and the conscious world. The ultimate goal of its creators... I think it is to make the two worlds completely merge."
"Does this count as hearing about a life-and-death-level mission in the world?"
Joshua looked at the radiant black sphere and scratched his head. The energy source of this thing was probably the negative emotions of the creatures on the continent of Aleslota.
"But why do I feel that I agree with the idea of the final boss." Joshua thought for a while and a terrifying thought appeared in his head.
If the phantom world can really merge with the real world, Joshua doesn't know whether it is a dream or a disaster for people like him.