After saying goodbye to President Cruz and the two, Xu Yi drove a carriage to Bangta City alone.
When he walked to a secluded place, the space around Xu Yi was slightly distorted, a breeze carrying a fragrance drifted by, and suddenly there was an additional person sitting on the seat next to him.
"President Xu, just now you told those two people that you wanted their chamber of commerce to help transform the embankment of a river. Are you referring to the river of our tribe?" Yanis looked at Xu Yi expectantly and asked.
"Do you think I need to build embankments for other rivers?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.
"So, you really plan to help us?" The look on Yanis's face suddenly became excited.
Xu Yi shook his head helplessly: "Miss Yanis, I never said I wouldn't help you. It turns out you never believed me from the beginning to the end."
Yanis lowered her head slightly and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, the elders of the tribe taught me not to trust humans since I was a child."
"You elves are really prejudiced against us humans." Xu Yi sighed. "Although I admit that there are many cunning people among us humans, we also have many people who pay attention to integrity, such as me. After you elves were deceived by humans several times, you killed all of us humans with one stick. Beat him to death, this is too paranoid."
Yanis shook her head: "Not only have I been deceived a few times, I heard from the elders that in the history of our elves, we have been deceived by humans countless times, so our elves' consensus with humans is that we cannot I believe it." After a pause, Yanis asked again with a puzzled face: "President Xu, I'm actually very surprised, why are you humans of the same race, but each of you is so different?"
Xu Yi rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Is it possible that everyone in your elven tribe looks the same? For example, are they all as innocent as you and a single-celled creature? I really don't understand what the elders of your tribe think. He actually sent you out to seek help from other races, and he wasn’t afraid that others would sell you out.”
Yanis blinked her eyes, looking confused.
"President Xu. What is a single-celled organism? Do you think I am naive?"
Xu Yi shook his head, too lazy to argue with this little Elf girl about these issues, and said, "Okay, you heard it just now. I asked the Amuli Chamber of Commerce to help me transform the river embankment, but whether it is to be familiar with the properties of cement or to master my It will take some time to use the concrete that was handed over to them, and even the development of the concrete mixer will take a while, so there is no way to change your race's water problem for the time being. By the way, Yanis, you have never thought about collecting underground water. Are you here to use it? Although the river has changed its course, the groundwater will not change its course easily. The vegetation of Falling Rain Forest should be very rich as well. "
"Underground water?" Yanis thought for a while and replied: "The elders have also tried it. Just like you humans, we dug a deep well on the ground to use underground water. But after we dug more than ten meters deep, we found that the ground was full of thick rocks. , and then it couldn’t be dug.”
"That's because you encountered underground rock formations. According to my experience, as long as you penetrate the rock formations, you will open up the underground water source. Are you just giving up?" Xu Yi asked again.
A hint of sadness appeared on Yanis's face: "The elders said that the rocks underground are very thick and cannot be penetrated with their abilities. If they want to break through, even a high-level human earth magician will not be able to do it. I am afraid it will have to be The earth magician needs to use forbidden magic. But even among you humans, the magician is the top figure. Let’s not even mention that we invite him here.”
"That's not necessarily the case." Xu Yi smiled slightly. "As long as you can give him enough benefits, even the Magister can be hired."
Yanis said helplessly: "But our tribe can't offer enough reward to impress a magister."
"Perhaps it's just that you haven't discovered your own value. Take Yanis, for example. You alone, in my opinion, already contain extraordinary value." Xu Yi looked at Yanis meaningfully.
Yanis pointed at herself in astonishment: "Me? I'm just an ordinary elf, do I have any special value?"
Xu Yi laughed: "You don't know it now, but you will understand it later. As for solving your tribe's water problem, after listening to what you just said, I suddenly thought of a way to temporarily help you solve it."
Yanis's eyes suddenly lit up; "Really? What can I do?"
"Wait patiently for a while. I will give you the answer." Xu Yidao.
Yanis stopped asking questions and just looked at Xu Yi with bright eyes, her eyes no longer full of suspicion.
Unknowingly, she had begun to trust the human being in front of her, whom she had only recently interacted with.
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The carriage stopped outside a remote and quiet courtyard in the city.
Xu Yi jumped off the carriage, opened the door and walked in. I saw Steel standing in the small garden behind the courtyard, wearing a lavender dress and holding a lamp that was made yesterday by the most skilled dwarves such as Master Lanu and Canby. The magic lamp, lowered his head slightly, looked calm, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
Just glancing at it, Xu Yi's heart skipped a beat involuntarily.
Steele was originally beautiful, but now she put on such a pose, which suddenly turned her sunny temperament into a restrained and calm one. The huge contrast immediately gave Xu Yi a different kind of impact and shock.
And once Steele calmed down, her well-tailored lavender dress sublimated her entire temperament.
Just looking at her current look, she is worthy of the title of "Bonta Goddess".
Not far from Steele, Master Alithos had a huge canvas in front of him, and he was concentrating on painting the moving scene in front of him on the canvas.
Xu also knew that Master Alithos was immersed in the world of painting at this time. He glanced at it from a distance and saw that the drawing on the canvas was almost completed, so he stood aside quietly without disturbing him.
Then the finishing of this painting took more than half an hour. Although Xu Yi felt that it was not boring to appreciate Steele's rare but equally beautiful expression here, his feet were a little sore from standing. It was easy to see Master Alithos finishing the last stroke, putting away his brush, and walked over quickly.
Looking closer at the canvas, Xu Yi couldn't help but praise it.
The canvas is an almost perfect reproduction of Steele's current beauty. Although it is not as moving as the real person, it is vivid enough. Anyone who sees this picture will be attracted by Steele immediately.
But after watching it for a while. Xu Yi discovered a problem.
Steele in this painting is indeed particularly moving and eye-catching, but all the attention has been attracted by Steele, but I am afraid not many people will notice the magic in Steele's hand. lamp.
You must know that Xu Yi asked Master Alithos to draw this painting, and the purpose was to advertise the magic lamp that was about to be launched by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. If this picture was hung up, it would be a promotional poster for Steele. Instead of advertising the magic lamp.
"President Xu, as long as Miss Steele can attract enough attention, people will naturally notice the magic lamp in her hand. I don't think there is any problem at all. You are worrying too much. ." Master Alithos dismissed Xu Yi's concerns.
At this time, Steele also came over, took a look at the drawing, thought for a while, and said to Master Alithos: "Master. I think Xu Yi is right. You should emphasize the magic lamp more. It really doesn't work. You can completely blur my face."
Master Alithos shook his head repeatedly: "How is that possible? Miss Steele, you are so beautiful. If your face is blurred, it would be like removing the sun from the sky, and the whole picture will completely lose its meaning. No, I firmly disagree with this.”
"Yeah. I agree with that. Steele, if your face is blurred, why do I ask you to be this model? Just find anyone." Xu Yi thought for a while and said: "Amway Master Soth, I don’t mean to obscure Steele’s presence, but to emphasize the magic lamp. After all, this picture is to advertise the magic lamp.”
"Yeah, I'm just a foil." Steele laughed.
Seeing both of them saying this, Master Alithos frowned helplessly and thought for a while, then added a few more strokes to the canvas.
Although it was only a few strokes, the magic lamp in Steele's hand immediately became much more conspicuous. This shows his skill as a master painter.
Xu Yi looked at it for a while and still felt a little dissatisfied, but he didn't know anything about painting and couldn't tell what was wrong with it.
Seeing that Xu Yi seemed to still have some doubts, Master Alissos's expression became slightly colder: "President Xu, the changes to this painting can only go so far. If you are not satisfied, I can redraw it." , but the remuneration will be paid separately.”
Xu Yi glanced at him, feeling a little unhappy. But this Master Alithos is after all the most famous painter in Bangta City. Apart from him, Xu Yi could not find a suitable person to replace him for a while. Moreover, he had cooperated with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce many times before, and the two sides got along well. Not bad, Xu Yi didn't want to destroy this relationship just because of a temporary disagreement.
"There's no need to draw another one. This one is very good, that's it." Xu Yi thought for a while and said.
Master Alissos' expression calmed down: "Okay, then President Xu, the work this time is considered completed."
Xu Yi forced out a smile, shook hands with Master Alithos, and watched him leave.
After Uncle Alissos left, Steele glanced at the expression on Xu Yi's face, turned his eyes and said: "Xu Yi, I heard that there is also a famous painter in Kalma City, why don't we try to find one? he?"
Xu Yi shook his head: "Are you talking about Master Kassadin? I've heard that Master Kassadin's painting skills are not as good as Master Alithos. If we find him, it will be equivalent to breaking up with Master Alithos. , this is not a good choice.”
Steele frowned, thought for a while, and sighed: "It's a pity that Bangta City is a small city after all, and there are no more and better choices. If it were Anvilmar City, you could find more than Anliso." Master Si is an even better painter.”
"No way, this is reality." Xu Yi picked up the painting painted by Master Alissos just now. After looking at it for a while, he nodded with satisfaction: "Well, it's very good, although it is a bit of a failure as an advertising painting. , but as a portrait of you, it is very good. You see, your expression is captured very accurately in this painting. I think anyone who doesn’t know you will be surprised when they see this painting. I will definitely mistakenly think that you are a very quiet, elegant and connotative beauty.”
"Misunderstood?" Steele raised his eyebrows and stared. "what do you mean?"
Xu Yi laughed and didn't explain at all. Steele was so angry that he couldn't help but punched him hard.
Unexpectedly, just halfway through Steele's fist swing, the space around the two people suddenly distorted, and a figure suddenly appeared, quickly reached out and grabbed Steele's arm.
"Don't hurt him." Yanis's voice came from under the cloak.
Hearing that the voice was that of a young girl, Steele couldn't help but be even more stunned. He glanced at Anis and asked Xu Yi, "Who is she?"
Xu Yi was also startled by Yanis' sudden movement, but after hearing Steele's question and looking at Yanis, whose whole body was wrapped in a cloak, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind.
Got it!