"You can tell me what exactly you asked me to do." Naide Clark looked at Richard and said, looking like she couldn't wait.
Richard did not answer immediately, but took out a papyrus scroll from his arms and handed it to the other party, saying: "This is a list. It contains some things I need. The quantity may not be very large, but there are many types. It’s very complicated. If you want to buy it in Florence, you have to go to at least dozens or hundreds of places. Some of the items have special specifications, which is very complicated. All you have to do is buy these items. Come back. By the way, this is just the beginning of this mission. I will give you a new list later for you to buy, so you are ready."
"Would you like to buy something?" Narid looked at the papyrus scroll and said, "That's no problem." Suddenly something occurred to her, she looked at Richard and said, "By the way... you'll give me money, right? You know Yes, I only have a few silver coins with me, and I gave you the few gold coins I originally had. I’m afraid it won’t be enough to buy the things on your list.”
"Of course I will give you money." Richard said, throwing a money bag to Naili De, "Money is not the problem, the main thing is time. What you have to do is to buy things back as soon as possible, even if you spend more money It might as well be okay.”
"But you don't have much of these, right?" Nailide weighed the purse that Richard gave her and said. The next moment she opened it, her eyes widened suddenly, "Gold coins? And... crystal coins?!" At the end of the sentence, Nerid almost bit her tongue. She originally thought it was just a bag of silver coins.
Richard spoke up at this time: "I said, money is not a problem - time is the most important thing. If the money is not enough, you can still ask me for it."
"Okay, I'll definitely do it for you." Nailide said, carefully putting away the money bag and walking outside. Suddenly something occurred to her, she stopped, looked at Richard and asked, "By the way... Do you just trust me so much? We just met, right? Aren't you afraid that I will take your money and walk away? "
Richard's expression was calm: "Can you do it?"
"Of course I won't!" Nelide replied loudly, "I guarantee it with my personality."
Richard: "That's fine, go ahead."
"Oh." Nailid just walked out of the door, but within ten seconds, she quickly turned back, took out the "Starry Night Meditation Hat" from her arms, and solemnly stuffed it into Richard's hand, "I thought about it. Now, if I leave like this, I am still irresponsible to you. You must have a mortgage to be safe. This thing is worth a lot of money to you. If I really take your money and leave, you will You can sell it for money.”
Richard: "..."
At this time, Nerid finally showed a relieved expression and strode out of the yard: "Okay, I'm really leaving this time!"
Richard remained silent, because he really didn't know what to say to someone who was so considerate of others and responsible.
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In the next few days, Nerid has been busy, running around the streets of Florence, trying to buy various things on the list.
Three days later, after finally buying everything, Richard immediately handed over a new list.
Nelide had no time to rest and became busy again.
In the blink of an eye, another three days passed and I finally bought everything.
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Six days later.
Nerid walked into the courtyard carrying a huge box, placed it on the ground of the courtyard with a bang, and said to Richard: "This is the last thing you want, take a look, is there anything wrong? "
Richard walked to the box, opened it and took a look, and found that it contained something white and stone-like, but with a relatively low hardness. It was asbestos, which he used to treat some places in the Garden of Eden that needed high-temperature protection.
Nodding, Richard said to Nerid: "That's right, it's this thing." Then he closed the box, lifted it into the room, and sealed it.
He had to be careful about asbestos. Although this kind of thing is very easy to come into contact with on the modern earth, it is extremely toxic. Not to mention, asbestos powder is extremely difficult to decompose after inhalation in the body, leading to irreversible pulmonary fibrosis. Just the fact that asbestos is a carcinogen and can cause malignant tumors is enough to bear. After all, he didn't want to undergo chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the Middle Ages.
Using things like rock wool and high-silica composite materials can replace asbestos, thereby eliminating potential dangers. However, both rock wool and high-silica composite materials are relatively difficult to obtain. In order not to delay the progress of many researches, we can only make do with it. After all, everything cannot be perfect.
Thinking like this, Richard walked out of the room, handed over the "Starry Sky Meditation Hat" that Nairide had given him before, and said: "Okay, you have done my favor, and my favor of saving you has been cleared up." , you take the collateral and go back and forth wherever you go.”
After hearing what Richard said, Nailid blinked and did not answer.
"What?" Richard raised his eyebrows slightly.
"I think..." Nailide said slowly, as if she was thinking seriously, "I think, although I have done a lot of things for you these past few days, it is not hard at all, because you give me money. No need to eat black bread. If you think about it this way, the favor I helped you is not equal to the favor you saved my life. I should help you more. "
Richard: "..." If someone else said that, he would definitely think that the other person was trying to stay by his side and had some evil thoughts.
But for the girl in front of her, Nailid, the extremely hot "Feather of Judgment" in her arms made it very clear: the other party did not have any evil thoughts, but was extremely simple, extremely sincere, and extremely serious in wanting to pay off what she owed. A life-saving favor.
In other words, the other party did this entirely out of her own inner morality. She felt that helping her with seven days of work was not as important as saving her life. She didn't want to take advantage of anyone, so she was determined to pay off the remaining favors.
In this case…
Richard let out a breath, looked at Neid and asked, "How much favor do you think you still owe me?"
Nailid thought for a while and said, "How can it be so much as saving half of my life? I feel that repaying it is less than half."
"But there are only four days left, right? I remember you said before that you would go back to some jungle cabin in ten days."
"Yeah, so you have to give me more and more important things to do in a shorter period of time. I don't want to go into debt."
"Well, I really have something here that satisfies your request." Richard said, "I currently lack an extremely rare mineral. Well, just one kind, but it is very, very rare!
During these six days when you were busy, I was not idle, I was also busy. I just couldn't find this mineral after being busy for six days. If you can bring me this mineral within the next four days, it will be considered a great help to me and will be enough to repay your favor. "
"Are you sure?" Nelide was doubtful.
"Sure."
"Then tell me what kind of ore you want, not iron ore or copper ore."
"Of course not, its name is... molybdenite."
"Molybdenite?" Nerid was stunned, obviously she had never heard of this name before.
"I got the name myself. Here in Florence, it should be called gray moonstone, because its appearance is lead-grey. According to my understanding, it is a very rare ore with extremely low yield and has a certain The purpose of spell materials is usually mined secretly. Once mined, it will fall into the hands of wizards. This is why I couldn't find it in a short time.
If you really have the ability, then get some back for me. Even if you can't get it back, you can just tell me where it is. Its exact appearance is on this scroll... "
"good… "
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After a while, Nairide stepped out of the door with one foot, holding the scroll in her hand. She turned to face Richard inside the door and said firmly: "I will definitely help you find molybdenite... Uh, no, it's gray moonstone." .”
"I hope so." Richard said.
Nyrid walked out the door.
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