Having enough money in hand, Lei Zhen headed toward the exit to search for carriages. Carriages are another type of occupation in Magnolia. They are similar to modern transportation such as an uber or subway.
'Hmm, how co there are so few carriages available?' Lei Zhen was confused.
Even though there are teleportation channels in the town, he was unable to use them because it only works if the player had been there before. Therefore, unless he had been to Yors Castle before, he could not teleport there directly.
Of course, he could also try to teleport to Lux Forest instead, but because Lux Forest is not a city, there is no teleportation channel.
Hence, a carriage is his best option to be safe on the road.
However, Lei Zhen didn't expect that the carriage business had been going downhill ever since the construction of a teleportation channel.
Scratching his head, Lei Zhen was placed in a difficult spot. He was beginning to regret a bit not receiving so extra benefit from Thalia Frost but taught her a lesson for the future.
Alas, in this cruel world, regret is not sothing one could regain.
What's done is done, and his only hope is to improvise.
When a path is closed for you, there will always be another path opened for you. One could say it's the sa as Newton's third law in which the force always occupies in pairs.
With the carriage option canceled, Lei Zhen began to search for information from the NPC.
"Hi, do you know anyone that is going to Yors Castle?" Lei Zhen asked one of the NPCs that was operating a small stall. The small stall was selling so vegetables, and for the players themselves, it's an item to restore satiety.
The NPC had no intention of answering his question, so Lei Zhen decided to purchase a few vegetables.
After purchasing a few vegetables, the NPC's attitude changed completely, and was all friendly.
"Haha, is anyone going to Yors Castle? You've asked the correct person then. Right now, there's a rchant that is from Yors Castle and is hiring a few people as protection for his return." The NPC said and gave him the location of the rchant.
"Thank you for your information." Lei Zhen thanked him and left. He wasn't surprised by the attitude change of the NPC since Magnolia is a realistic ga.
What they just did was an equivalent exchange.
He wanted information and the NPC wanted to sell his vegetables. So at the end of the day, it was a win-win situation for both of them.
Soti later, Lei Zhen arrived at the location where the NPC pointed for him.
And indeed, the NPC did not lie to him as he could see a rchant-looking guy shouting and recruiting people.
It was easy to tell the person was a rchant based on the dress he was wearing. Pieces of jewelry on his hand and neck, plus the glamorous clothes that seed to be shining in public. Besides the accessories he was wearing, he had a nice-looking beard as well.
Not to ntion, the stingy price he was calling out in recruiting people. He was offering below-average paynt in exchange for protection and only greedy rchants would do such a thing.
Profits are their greatest boss and losing even a tiny bit would hurt their soul more than anything else.
"Offering 3 copper coins in exchange for protection for my rchandise to Yors Castle." The rchant continuously called out. His height was not too tall nor too short, but his yelling was indeed top-notch.
"Aish, just shut the hell up and place a signboard instead. No one would be willing to escort you for a asly 3 copper coins."
"I know right, how can one be so shaless like you? If you want protection for your rchandise, then you should offer at least a gold coin."
As the passing players walked by, so were irritated by his shouting and couldn't help but scold the rchant for ruining their mood.
However, the rchant seed to turn a deaf ear to such scoldings and continued to shout out his pricing for recruitnt. Shalessness was definitely the trait of a rchant like him.
If it wasn't because he had no other choice and did not want to rely on Tang Qiaolian, then he would really want to be like the other passing players.
"Sigh, the difference between a weak person and a strong person." Lei Zhen shook his head and calmly walked toward the rchant.
And when the rchant saw Lei Zhen walking over, his face was filled with a smile until he noticed sothing. Although he could not see how powerful or how weak Lei Zhen was, the clothes that he wore were a good enough indication for him.
pαndα,noνɐ1,сoМ As a rchant, keen eyesight is a must to survive in the industry and with a single glance, he could tell Lei Zhen was a weakling.
"Go away, my rchandise is all high-quality materials and expensive. I'm not going to hire a weakling that probably can't even kill a re goblin for protection." The rchant said, not even giving Lei Zhen a chance to speak.
Just because he was stingy in his recruiting price does not an he was willing to hire any Tom, Dick, and Harry for the job.
"You're a rchant, so you should have heard the saying 'Never Judge a Book by its Appearance', right?" Lei Zhen didn't give up and began to convince the rchant.
"I'm sure you must have been standing here for a long ti, and not a single person had answered your recruitnt, right? The problem with that is self-explanatory, so I won't bother going over that. However, your rchandise is expensive like you've said, then wouldn't that an it would soon go bad if you can't deliver it in ti?"
"Hmph, don't sound too smart, brat. My rchandise isn't even a consumption type, so how can it go bad?" The rchant snorted coldly.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what I an by going bad does not an the quality will decrease." Lei Zhen snickered.
"What I an by going bad is the timing of your return to Yors Castle. Since you're a rchant and decided to go your way out to co to the Town of Wales for items, then isn't it obvious that there are other rchants that know what kind of profit they are getting as well?"
Essentially, Lei Zhen was reminding the rchant that the profits he could sll, other rchants could also sll the sa and would be doing the sa thing as him.
'Heh, checkmate!' Lei Zhen laughed inwardly when he saw the rchant showed a sign of hesitation on his face.
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