Chapter 311: How to Control the Undead
"Five hundred gold coins for two undead? This is not business, this is robbery! Even an elven slave girl is not worth this price!"
In a courtyard in a small town in the valley, a paunchy nobleman got furious when he heard the offer: "Augusta, you don't know the market situation, what are you crazy about?"
Augusta, the slave trader from Adler , waited patiently for the other party to finish his temper before he said respectfully, "Dear Sir, please believe that your loyal Augusta will never do anything that is detrimental to the Stewart family."
"This money is not just the price for buying two undead. In fact, it also includes the correct method to capture the undead... The merchants from Tachia accidentally discovered the weakness of these undead!"
Sir Stuart's expression improved slightly.
Of course, this shrewd knight would not completely trust a slave trader, so he turned his attention to his son, Stuart Jr.
"That's true, father." Little Stuart was extremely arrogant in front of outsiders, but he was very docile and well-behaved in front of his father. "That Tachia merchant wanted to monopolize the business of capturing undead. It was Augusta who saw through his tricks and used 500 gold coins to get rid of the shameless northern barbarian and ordered him to sign a contract not to disclose the secrets."
Sir Stuart pulled up the corners of his drooping mouth, narrowed his wide eyes, and nodded: "Very good, Augusta, you handled this matter well."
After a pause, the fat on the knight's face stiffened again: "Since those Taqia merchants have discovered the weakness of the Tarantan Undead, then of course they also need a way to control these undead, right?"
"Yes, sir." Augusta said respectfully, "Tarantan Undead are intelligent undead who know how to communicate with humans. The biggest difference between them and ordinary undead is that they do not turn into a pile of bones after death, but disappear in a strange white light."
"On the other hand, as long as they are not fatally injured, they will never die. Even if they suddenly collapse into a pile of bones, as long as the bones are well preserved, they will move again after a while. This is something that the group of Tachia merchants have personally verified. They definitely don't have the courage to deceive us."
Augusta himself had seen with his own eyes the resurrection of a ghost wrapped in a bundle, and he believed in the story that the traveling merchant old Bert had racked his brains to make up.
"Undead spirits that are intelligent, able to communicate, and even capable of artistic creation are extremely rare. Add to that their immortal bodies - this is truly a rare source that cannot be found anywhere else in the entire continent except here!" Augusta said with a smile, as if he could see an endless river of gold coins before his eyes.
Sir Stuart also smiled, his eyes narrowed into slits.
What sells best in the population market?
As the saying goes, scarcity makes things valuable; rare, novel and special products sell best.
A professional warrior who is strong enough, a beautiful and noble female slave, a prince or princess with royal blood, an exiled noble with a high enough title... Whenever they appear in the population market, they always cause a sensation.
Some mercenary groups accidentally capture young monsters that can be tamed. Depending on their size, appearance, and abilities when they grow up, if they are shocking enough, they can be sold for a good price.
The "species" of the undead are not originally qualified to be included in the product list, but the rare species of undead such as the Tarantan undead, which are intelligent, can communicate, and even create art, are extraordinary - even if you look through all the books on occult studies, you will not find many similar precedents!
"Very good, very good, very good."
Sir Stuart used three "good"s in a row to express his joy at the moment, and said to the slave trader who depended on him in a friendly manner: "Go and gather people, and ask everyone you think is reliable to come and learn how to capture the undead. Once you have made the arrangements, you can take my people with you."
"Yes, sir." Augusta bowed repeatedly in gratitude. The sir even lent him his own private soldiers, which was enough to prove Augusta's status in the sir's mind.
When this group of guys were plotting to make money from the undead next door... Yang Ying and Jia Luo, the two female players who were sold without knowing it and saw the buyer and seller trading in front of their own eyes, were taken to the place in the valley town used to detain slaves by several powerful thugs.
There are five rows of single-story wooden houses surrounded by high walls. The only entrance and exit is guarded by more than 20 thugs. There is an arrow tower inside the high wall and a patrol post under the tower. It is more heavily guarded than the local military camps that the players have seen with their own eyes.
Yang Ying and Jia Luo, who were dragged in by the thugs, had no awareness that they were prisoners. They followed them obediently, pointing .
"The wooden house here seems to be the same as the one we saw when we were doing the logging mission?" Yang Ying said.
"It's normal. Cloned buildings often appear in games, and the model of the same house is used repeatedly." Jia Luo said, "Huh? That's not right, Sister Ying, look carefully, the wooden house in the lumberyard is more detailed than the wooden house here. If there is any similarity, it is more similar to the wooden shed we saw in the laundry lane of Moses Port during the mission "The Disappearance of Kent Bennett"."
"Oh, yes. The wooden houses here are much more simple." Yang Ying turned his head and looked at the high wall. "The houses outside the wall are quite detailed, but the inside of the wall is so rough. Doesn't it feel unharmonious?"
"Maybe this is just a one-time mission map. Once the player completes the mission, these areas inside the wall will be refreshed, so there's no need to design it too carefully." Game veteran Gala explained calmly.
"Oh? There is such a thing?" It was the first time that Yang Ying, a gaming rookie, heard such a statement.
"It's obvious that this place is a den of thieves. All the NPCs in the town are yellow-named. We must fight them all." Jia Luo said confidently, "The area surrounded by high walls must be a prison or something like that. We are locked up here, and we will catch evidence of the crimes in this den of thieves, trigger the mission, open the teleportation point, kill the BOSS, refresh the green-named NPCs, and open a new map. That's the rhythm."
"Oh oh oh." Yang Ying nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
...It's a pity that the thugs holding them couldn't understand what they were saying...
As they were talking, the two female players were escorted by the thugs to the innermost part of the wall, where the "high-end goods" were kept, in front of several wooden houses with sealed windows.
The two female players were locked in one of the rooms, and the thugs quickly locked the reinforced door...
"It's so unlucky that they have to escort the undead in the middle of the night!" A thug breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his sweat. "I really don't understand why anyone would be willing to spend money on this kind of thing?"
"Keep your voice down. Master Augusta spent a lot of money on these two undead."
"I was just saying that... Hey man, aren't you surprised? I feel creepy just looking at this kind of thing hanging around in front of me. I want to buy this kind of thing home. Ms. Gold Coin, I won't even pay for it."
"Hey, who knows what those rich gentlemen are thinking."
In the pitch-black wooden house, the two female players didn't care what the thugs who were gradually moving away were muttering.
As soon as the two of them were locked up by the NPC, the task panel, which had been as steady as a rock, as cowardly as an old dog, and motionless... finally responded.
"'Deep into the Enemy Camp' has been triggered."
"Not all guests who come to Innadri have good intentions. When the simple and kind people of Innadri warmly entertain guests from afar, they never expect that there are bad guests staring at them with bad intentions."
"As you were patrolling the land of Innadri as usual, eliminating hidden dangers and disasters for the people, you unexpectedly discovered a suspicious caravan."
"This suspicious caravan brought you to a mysterious valley in the southern wasteland of Adler territory."
"Why does a prosperous and bustling town suddenly appear in a valley in the wilderness? You didn't even find any signs of land being cleared and cultivated around the valley when you came here. How do the people in this town make a living?"
"You made sure to investigate further, pretending not to notice the caravan's malicious intentions. Finally, you discovered this strange and mysterious town, and the secrets that those evil guests who coveted Innadri tried so hard to hide..."
Generally speaking, for quest lines like this one opened up by players themselves, Yang Qiu would not provide quest hints in the quest text; because if the players didn't find any clues, he would have nothing to offer as hints.
But this time...the ones who "triggered" the mission were Yang Ying and Jia Luo.
These two are more careless and blind than each other.
There was no other way, so Yang Qiu had to "check for omissions and fill in the gaps" by himself, marking the clues that the two female players had missed and the details that they had not discovered at all in the task text...
Even though he carefully filled in the survey content that the two girls ignored, the two girls were completely unable to appreciate his painstaking efforts.
"Look, Sister Ying, I told you, we just need to be honest and not rebel, and wait for the story to finish, then the mission will come out." Jia Luo didn't even read what was written on the mission text. As soon as the mission came out, she immediately boasted happily in the Blood Alliance channel, "I triggered the mission! See! Whoever said I was lame, stand up and save your life!"
Yang Ying also completely ignored the long text and only looked at the task requirements: "Well... this task requires the two of us to run a few laps in this valley and run all the terrain routes - damn, this task is issued, and we are both locked up, how can we get out?"
"Well... let me take a look." Jialuo turned his head and looked around the small wooden house which was less than six square meters in size.
At least there was some starlight outside, but it was really dark inside the house.
But this is not a problem for the undead...the undead can see at night.
"Hey, got it!" Jialuo's eyes lit up, and she walked to the closed door and squatted down, raising her hand and patting the meal delivery card under the thick wooden door, "Sister Ying, look here, let's go out from here."
"This is too narrow. It's not even as big as the drawer opening. I can't get through." Yang Ying also squatted down and looked at the small opening, saying in confusion.
This meal delivery slot located under the wooden door is less than 20 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide, and can only be used to pass plates, bowls, etc.
"If I can get through, I can get through with my head." Jialuo said... raising his arms and taking off his head.
Next, the girl held her own skull with both hands, turning over and over, changing the angle, and thrusting it out from the narrow food delivery card slot...
"Damn, my sight follows my head, I feel a little dizzy." While turning her head, Jialuo muttered, "Sister Ying, when my head comes out, please help me pick up my body skeleton, and then I will help you pick up the bones later."
