The next day, Azi, brother and sister Al went together to the Silver City Council to talk to the nobles about purchasing supplies. Don Quixote heads to his own territory to prepare to train the latest batch of reservists of the Guardian Legion. Xiao Ke went to the Muqi Consulate in Magnum, hoping to do something. Kaya and Kallis had already arrived at Dusk Forest and found a good place to settle down.
"all gone?"
Zhou Li took a piece of bread, sprinkled some black pepper on it and took a casual bite. Zhou Li got up extra late today. Generally speaking, apart from Don Quixote who got up first to exercise, Zhou Li was the second to get up.
"Um."
Eluma on the side handed the hot honey milk to Zhou Li, her jewel-like eyes full of cat-like laziness, "When are we leaving?"
"I tentatively plan it to be two days later."
Zhou Li drank the milk in one gulp, and then handed the cup to Eluma, "Today you and I are going to buy some gifts. It won't work without bringing some gifts if you are not familiar with the place."
"Wait a moment."
As soon as she heard the word gift, Eluma immediately became alert, "Let me make sure, what is the purpose of your gift?"
"By exchanging gifts, I will let the nobles of Yingnan have a heart-to-heart with me, thereby gaining their friendship."
Zhou Li answered quickly, looking very magnanimous like a gentleman. But Eluma obviously didn't let him pass by him so easily. Instead, she continued to ask: "What do you want to do with me?"
"Fist your patriotism!"
"well?"
Eluma was stunned for a moment. Zhou Li stood up, patted her shoulder and went to the clothes rack to take off the clothes and put on the cane. Only then did she realize. In confusion, Eluma murmured: "Magnum...isn't it Yingnan's feud?"
"Wait a minute, your gift won't be Levi's head!"
An exclamation made Zhou Li's hands tremble as he was struggling with the Magnum buttons. He looked at Eluma with a look of horror on his face: "Xiao Ai, why are you so violent?"
"Oh, isn't it?"
Eluma was stunned by the consequences caused by Zhou Li's plan to erect a portrait of Magnum III yesterday, and then her cheeks quickly turned red. "Sorry...I went a little too far."
"No, I mean, you're kind of underestimating me."
Zhou Li smiled brightly and said proudly: "If I am really ready to surrender to Yingnan, I will take the head of Magnum III."
"Forget it, you just cheated me out of a lot of money."
Eluma stood up, snapped her fingers, and the water flowed over the dishes, chopsticks, cutlery, and forks, making them as clean as new. Zhou Li on the side seemed to notice something, but he didn't say anything. He just waited for Eluma as usual and headed to the United Chamber of Commerce in Silver City.
Baiyin United Chamber of Commerce, also known as Baiyin Glory, is the world's largest import and export chamber of commerce. Here, you can buy specialties from any country in the world, whether it is the glow technology of the Tarik Kingdom, the secret silk and satin of the Three Eastern Courts, or the mechanical devices of Yingnan, everything is available in silver glory.
"Fart, there are no specialties of Yingnan and Magnum here at all."
Zhou Li walked around the grand sixteen-story building with ease, and then complained to Eluma in disappointment.
"well??"
Eluma, who prefers North American cookies to silk and satin, is holding a cowhide bag, and her slightly bulging cheeks like a hamster make people laugh and feel affection at the same time. She tilted her head, raised her eyes, and asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Didn't we go to the import store in Yingnan just now? I think the movable three-stage transformable three-color luminous robotic arm they designed is very cool. Ah, quite Yingnan style?"
Regarding the mechanical arm Eluma mentioned, Zhou Li rarely said this without a mocking face. On the contrary, he nodded and said convincingly: "He is indeed handsome."
"Yes, yes, and..."
Eluma swallowed the biscuit in her mouth, wiped the bean paste from the corner of her mouth with water without leaving a trace, and said excitedly: "I just saw Magnum's National Encyclopedia. It's such a big book, and there's Search the magic circle. If you want to find information, you can directly enter keywords. It’s very easy to use.”
"It's not like you've never used Baidu before and know a little bit about it, so you don't need to play this pirated version of Baidu, which is much better?"
Regarding Magnum's national encyclopedia, Zhou Li directly scoffed, "There isn't even an advertisement on it. If it were me, I would engrave another magic circle on the cover. If you want to use it, just You have to watch ads, but if you don’t want to watch ads, you can use money to unlock membership services. Isn’t this more profitable than that crappy encyclopedia?”
Hearing this, Eluma fell silent. After a moment, she tugged on the corner of Zhou Li's clothes, pursed her lips, frowned slightly, and looked so serious that Zhou Li was stunned for a moment. She looked at Zhou Li and said, "Half-knowledge is a thing of gods, but the encyclopedia is a work created by humans. I like this one better than the half-knowledge."
Zhou Li looked at Eluma's face and raised an imperceptible arc at the corner of his mouth. He rubbed Eluma's head, then stretched out his hand to pull Eluma's tender cheek, and said with a smile: "You are right."
"ah?"
Facing Zhou Li, who was inexplicably gentle, Eluma was stunned. Zhou Li didn't say much, he just handed the gift box he just bought to Heiwu beside him and asked him to carry it for him.
"By the way, what exactly are the specialties of Yingnan and Magnum that you just said are lacking?"
After realizing that he could not turn this corner, Eluma Shiran chose to give up thinking and instead asked Zhou Li the question that he had not answered just now.
"Oh, what a special feature."
Zhou Li passed by a stall, picked up a porcelain bowl from Dongfang Santing, and said with a hint of nostalgia: "Of course it's a bowl made from the heads of aborigines."
“Who would sell that kind of thing!!!”
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"Let me see…"
The shopping took four or five hours. In fact, Zhou Li only spent one hour shopping. In the remaining three hours, he mainly accompanied Eluma to search for snacks and snacks, and by the way, he planned to give them to the Goblins in the Goblin Farmhouse. Install Yingnan's robotic arm. It's a pity that the seller said that this thing is too expensive and crappy to be used as a decoration and cannot be mass-produced, otherwise Zhou Li would really show them his furious consumption.
"Four pieces of porcelain, two pieces of jade bracelets, two Magnum specialty gift boxes, three pieces of Tariq Brilliance Crystal, ten platinum-level shield generators, and two mechanical arms..."
Seeing Zhou Li who turned his robotic arm pink on the street and punched in the air for no apparent reason, Eluma hid her face and sighed, not knowing what to do.
"You said this thing is twenty gold coins each. Even if Zhou Li gets five gold coins back by cutting people off, I still feel this thing is useless at all."
After hearing Eluma's words, Zhou Li turned around very seriously, raised his mechanical arm with red and pink lights flashing, and said solemnly:
"But it's pink!"
"Tsk."
Eluma was speechless for a moment, because she knew that Zhou Li would soon repeat that theory again.
"Let me tell you, if I use a long sword inlaid with gold and silver to defeat Shabi who challenges me, he will only think that I am better than him, or that I am opportunistic. In short, he will be dissatisfied in various ways."
Zhou Li crossed his fists, and the LED lights that had been adjusted in his fists flashed like neon balls, giving the Magnum street a ballroom-like feel under the setting sun. He didn't care about the looks of passers-by and said calmly:
"But if he is defeated by two gloves with flashing pink lights and called pink cat fists, he will not only admit that he is a loser, but he will also receive a second mental insult and collapse directly."
"Okay, okay, as long as you like it."
Eluma walked over helplessly and funny, grabbed Zhou Li's sleeve and walked towards the gathering point, "Then can our pink cat boxing hero put away the cute cat boxing? There are so many The residents are watching us, it would be embarrassing if any of them recognize you."
"This is called having fun with the people."
After throwing the gloves to Hei Wu, who was trying his best to carry large and small bags, Zhou Li stretched his waist and stretched his muscles. "If it weren't for the boxing glove seller, he would look at it with a look of stupidity. I will buy it for forty gold coins."
"Okay, I know."
After peeling off the chestnuts in her hand and stuffing them directly into Zhou Li's mouth, Eluma clapped her palms. Her eternally pure body was not actually contaminated with any dust, but she subconsciously made this action.
"Oh, it's quite sweet."
After swallowing the sweet chestnuts, Zhou Li looked at the magical cowhide bag in Eluma's arms with some interest, and asked curiously: "Is there anything else delicious?"
"I guess you'll be hungry at this time."
Eluma smiled, then took out three steaming buns from the cowhide bag and handed them to Zhou Li, "What you like, mushroom and meat stuffing, I specifically didn't let him put black pepper in it, just eat it. "
"Yo."
Zhou Li took the bun and chuckled at Eluma's attentiveness. Then, he suddenly reacted.
Why does she know...I like mushroom meat?
I have never eaten steamed buns in this life.
Zhou Li was stunned. He stared blankly at the bun in his hand, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
"Hey, what's wrong? Don't you like eating?"
Eluma looked at Zhou Li who was in a daze, came over and asked curiously.
"Ah, no."
Zhou Li seemed to be awakened, shook his head, and ate the buns. Eluma didn't think much and continued to hum songs and followed Zhou Li up and down.
Opening the door, Ah Zi sat at the round table with a tired look on her face, leaning lazily against Ling Hai. When she heard the sound of the door lock opening, she just raised her eyes and then weakly said hello: "You're back?"
"What are you doing? You are so tired."
Zhou Li dispersed the black mist, and the gifts fell neatly on the table and were piled up. He pulled out his chair and sat across from Ah Zi, and asked curiously.
"Don't mention it."
AhZi let out a long sigh, raised her hand, and waved it. This movement seemed to have exhausted all her strength, and it became visibly softer to the naked eye.
"We met with thirteen noble families today and held at least three major meetings. Those nobles talked a lot and made one set of red tape after another."
At this point, Azi suddenly came to life. She slapped the table, then put away her hands with tears in her eyes, and complained tremblingly: "Pull out a chair. Several people came over to help me pump. Two children with cerebral palsy even beat me. I stood up. I wanted to get something from my bag, but this guy, six people stood up and rushed to the clothes rack next to me. I was dumbfounded. I thought these people were crazy and wanted to grab two piles in my bag. I was so scared that I almost jumped off my chair when I sold the contract."
"Just to please you."
Zhou Li pointed out the thoughts of the nobles pointedly, "Now that you and Al are my public liaisons, the news that I made a large sum of money from the old man Magnum has already spread. This Many people don’t dare to come to me, so they can only use you to see if they can get some money.”
"Indeed, they don't dare to face you."
After all, half of the last batch of nobles who faced you were mentally retarded, and half lost their fortunes. Now the name Zhou Li is talked about in the noble world. Even those ladies who scare children now have changed from "the disobedient wolf will snatch you away" to the current "disobedient brave man will hang you on the street lamp".
Zhou Li, who was well aware of his reputation, waved his hand indifferently, looking like he couldn't help but deserve a beating. Then he looked around curiously and asked Azi: "Where are Aiwei and Ain? Didn't they come back with you?"
After hearing Zhou Li's inquiry, Azi immediately wiped away her fatigue and said with a gloating smile: "These two are in charge of the Chamber of Commerce. Although those people in the Chamber of Commerce are pretty smart and do not engage in terrorist attacks, those people in the Chamber of Commerce are not responsible for terrorist attacks." People's skills can be very deep. One hundred gold coins can be deducted to the smallest details of copper coins. I estimate that they will not be able to come back every two hours."
"That's pretty miserable."
Zhou Li, who was not very interested in business and only wanted to make money openly and openly using illegal means, was very happy to have a pair of Ou Long and Phoenix under his command. He stood up, picked up a cup of coffee, poured half a cup of milk and six spoons of sugar into it, and returned to his room leisurely.
He sat at his desk, took off the Warrior's Exclusive from his waist, and placed it on the table. Zhou Li pondered for a moment, and then said, "Help me tally up the new strength. Let me see how much strength Mu Qi has gained during this trip."
"good."
Two brief words appeared on the paper, and soon, a piece of paper full of words fell into Zhou Li's hands.
Zhou Li took a cursory glance and fixed his gaze on an inconspicuous skill. When he saw the name of that skill, he fell into deep thought.
Next door, Eluma took off her gorgeous dress, put on a shirt and shorts, sat cross-legged on her bed, and took the package Zhou Li packed for her.
Food, food, food, and cooking tools, huh?
When she counted something square, Eluma was blinded.
"Did I buy this?"
Eluma muttered as she opened the package of this thing. Soon, a brand new and thick Magnum World Encyclopedia appeared in front of her. On the cover engraved with a gorgeous magic circle, a line of beautiful text caught Eluma's eyes.
"To you who is as important as the world - Zhou Li"
