Lord Highlander

  Chapter 31 30. Fish thief

  This river valley has a large drop between the upper and lower reaches, and the current is turbulent.

Less than 100 meters downstream from the fishing spot of the second team, there is a natural dam formed by landslides, which has formed a Yansai Lake in this area, so this Tim fish weighing hundreds of pounds was born. They will live in this water area. There are rocky beaches on both sides of the river valley. These pebbles are almost the size of a fist. After years of washing, they have become smooth and round pebbles.

  On the wooden cross, there is only a bone frame left on the Youzhu, and the hemp rope used to climb the rock wall is also frayed, and some serious places are about to break.

  The soldiers of the second team sat under the tree exhausted. This old willow tree by the river seemed to have just experienced a storm, and its broken branches and leaves fell to the ground.

  Occasionally, a timfish would jump up from the water and shoot a water arrow at the willow tree.

  Of course these water arrows couldn't touch the soldiers of the team, but they beat the old willow tree by the bank until almost all its leaves fell off.

  The soldiers sat under the tree, and a water arrow exploded above their heads, like a light rain.

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  Although the timfish has not awakened elementary intelligence, this first-level monster is not without a brain. By noon, no timfish is willing to bite this big hook.

Fifteen Tim fish weighing two to three hundred pounds were placed in front of the rocky beach in the river valley. The heads of the fish covered with green scales were split open by a sharp axe. Fifteen timfish skulls were found, but only five longan-sized magic cores were found. Because the magic cores are relatively small, the probability of being able to produce magic crystals is also very low.

   But even so, the members of the second team have been excited for a long time. Even if they don’t gamble that there are magic crystals in it, but simply sell the magic core, the value of such a longan-sized magic core is about 50 silver coins.

  In order to avoid the tim fish in the river, Suldak ordered the team members to drag the tim fish to some bushes farther from the river.

Surdak has good skinning skills. He is squatting next to a timfish, using a sharp skinning knife to peel off the whole fish skin. This kind of fish skin is a good material for sewing fish skin scabbards, and it can also be To make fish skin boots or belts, the merchants in the street market outside the camp are very willing to buy this low-level magic beast material.

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   "It's a pity that none of these timfish have natural magic lines, otherwise they can make a small income." Suldak clicked his lips and rubbed his cheek with the back of his hand holding the skinning knife, looking a little dissatisfied.

"It's also very good. If these magic cores and fish skins are sold, the money you get is almost equivalent to a month's subsidy for the infantry regiment. No wonder there are so many adventure groups willing to come to explore." Red Sock Garcia squatted Beside Suldak, there was a look of joy on his face.

Now that we talked about the distribution of loot, Suldak sat on the grass, drank some water, and pointed to the magic cores in front of him, saying, "If you sell these magic cores to Lajin, you can probably get two hundred and fifty silver coins." Coins, there are thirteen people in our team, and the average distribution is about nineteen silver coins."

During the few days when He Boqiang stayed in the businessman's tent, he usually helped the curly-haired boy Gabi to set up a street stall. There were also several magic cores the size of pigeon eggs on Gabi's street stall, so the price of the magic core was very high. I understand that a magic core of this size on the market is indeed at this price.

He reached out and picked up a magic core and put it in the palm of his hand. There was still a fishy smell on the magic core. Each magic core has a very hard outer skin. Only by polishing off this layer of outer skin can you see the magic crystal inside. stone.

Suldak said to the team members: "Each of us can get a Tim fish skin. I don't care if you sell this fish privately or keep it and take it home later. Such a Tim fish skin If the fish skin is sold in the camp market here, it will cost at least ten silver coins, but you must think about it, if you take it home, the price can be doubled at least."

   Thirteen of the fifteen Tim fish skins were evenly distributed, and the remaining two belonged to the captain and the skinning technician, that is, Suldak's.

  The bearded Kagel seemed a little dissatisfied with these harvests. Looking at the magic core in He Boqiang's hand, he sighed: "It would be great if all these magic cores produced magic crystals."

Augustus sat next to Kagel, his eyes became brighter, and he asked tentatively: "Do you dare to bet, if one of the five magic cores can produce magic spar, we will gain at least It can be doubled."

  Cagle rolled his eyes upwards, and asked back: "What if you can't open a single one?"

  Augustus spread his hands and said indifferently: "Then there is nothing left, we can only carry a Tim fish skin back home."

  Red Socks Garcia said cautiously: "I think that as long as we sell these magic cores, we will make a profit. There is no need to gamble."

  Seeing that some people's eyes began to become lively when they heard Augustus' words, Suldak waved his hand decisively and said to Augustus:

"I've seen someone open this kind of longan-sized magic core, but they didn't get any magic spar even after opening 20 pieces. The stone yield rate of the magic core produced by a first-level monster is still too low! If you want to block it, you can pay for it If you buy these few magic cores, if you can get magic spar, all the harvest will be your own."

  Augustus spread his hands helplessly, expressing that he was poor and worthless, curled his lips and said, "If no one supports me, then forget it!"

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  He Boqiang calmly put the magic core in his hand back to its original place.

  Just now, He Boqiang suddenly found that the magic core in his hand seemed to seep out a faint breath, and that faint breath flowed back along his arm to his shoulder.

In that instant, in his spiritual world, he perceived countless stars in the void, gathered in the projection of his body and dimmed. The weak aura released by the magic core inside entered the body, and a dark star next to the second star began to have a faint light.

  The breath seeping out of the magic core can actually light up the stars in his spiritual world.

He Boqiang hurriedly put the magic core back to its original place. When he retracted his hand, he subconsciously picked up another magic core. He put this magic core in his palm calmly. The breath did not reappear.

  He Boqiang picked up several other magic cores one after another, but only when he held the first magic core, he would feel something.

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  The weather is hot, and these timfish will spoil quickly if left there.

Now they are lying in the shade of the bushes, and the soldiers of the second team are cutting the best meat from these fish, slicing them into thin slices and placing them on the big clean rocks on the shore to dry them. Two to three hundred pounds, the net meat cut from fifteen timfish must weigh at least a thousand catties, even if dried into the sun, it would weigh several hundred catties. Sun dried fish.

  The fish meat of Tim fish is tender and delicious. Everyone’s lunch is a pot of fragrant fish porridge. There is no way to cook it carefully in the wild, so it tastes the same.

Since there are aborigines in the vicinity, the second team can't stay here for too long. When the sun is about to set, they put part of the dried fish into the grain bag, and each person returns with a share of more than 20 kilograms of dried fish. Temporary camp.

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  He Boqiang was lying in the tent and sleeping soundly, when he heard the voice of Red Sock Garcia outside the tent: "Captain... Suldak!"

   It seemed that it was useless to call the captain, and it was impossible to wake him up at all, so Red Sox Garcia boldly changed to the previous name "Suldak".

  Hearing someone shout, Suldak, who was lying at the door of the tent, woke up immediately, and asked in a deep voice:

"What's up?"

  He Boqiang forced himself to open his eyes and looked outside the tent. At this time, the sky was just getting bright, and the sky gradually turned blue, the stars receded, and a dazzling white band appeared on the horizon.

  Red Socks squatted outside the tent wearing a bulky armor, and reported to Suldak who had just been awakened:

   "Captain, that group of natives ran to the other side of the river to steal fish!"

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  (end of this chapter)