Lord Highlander

  Chapter 761 750. Material transactions

   "Put in another..."

Suldak's voice was a little hoarse, his body was covered with the dark brown bodily fluids of ghost-striped red ants, and he was holding a blood-red crescent in his hand. A group of ghost-printed red ants.

  The archers shot and killed the ghost pattern worker ant one after another, leaving only the ghost pattern soldier ant that rushed to the front.

  The huge body climbed up to the top of the wall, and the whole body was stronger than the buffalo. A pair of giant pincers grew out of the soldier ant's head, which could easily bite off logs with big, thick legs.

  The forelimbs covered with bone spurs were inserted into the cracks in the stones of the city wall, causing the stones on the city wall to loosen a bit.

  Ten heavy armored infantrymen hid behind the wall, holding their breath, waiting for the ghost pattern soldier ant to climb over the wall.

The two infantrymen at the front held large double-edged axes in their hands. The moment the forelimbs of the ghost-striped soldier ants were on the wall, the two axes slashed fiercely at the weak joints of the forelimbs of the ghost-striped red ant, and immediately smashed their forelimbs cut off.

  The ghost pattern soldier ant let out a scream, and the giant pincers on its head stabbed at the heavy armored infantry, thinking about cutting off the heavy armored infantry at the waist.

The heavy armored infantry holding a double-edged giant ax dropped the giant axe, rolled backwards, and hid behind the heavy armored infantry holding a tower shield. The giant claws of the ghost-striped soldiers hit the square tower shield, and the four soldiers behind simultaneously used their shoulders When they touched the shield, they were knocked to the ground.

  Four armored infantrymen with spears in the back took the opportunity to stab the spears into the bone seam connecting the ghost pattern soldier ant's head and chest cavity, causing it to get stuck on the top of the city.

   Then all the infantry soldiers quickly dodged, and a large amount of acid was sprayed out of the mouthparts of the ghost pattern soldiers.

Samira controlled the bed crossbow and aimed at the ghost-striped red ant and shot a giant bolt. She was less than ten meters away from the ghost-striped red ant. No way to break free.

  The heavy armored infantry held a spear, stabbing the huge head of the ghost pattern soldier ant and making it unable to struggle.

  Two heavy armored infantry took the opportunity to rush forward, picked up the giant double-edged ax thrown on the ground, and took the opportunity to chop off the soldier ant's head...

  This is already the sixth ghost pattern soldier ant

  Although the strength of this soldier ant is far inferior to other second-level monsters, its skull is the same as that of a second-level monster. Each soldier ant has a magic core in its skull.

   It is not yet known whether the hard shells on the ghost pattern soldier ants are magic materials, after all, those shells are too hard.

  Samila took out a stinky magic core from his sticky head, but with joy on his face, he proudly said to Suldak:

   "These big guys seem to be very good! Each has a magic core."

Suldak approached the wall, looked at the densely packed ant colony under the city wall, and felt that although the ant colony under the city wall was still crowded together, they seemed to have become orderly. The large ghost pattern soldier ants move.

  The corpses of the ghost pattern soldier ants at the foot of the city wall have been completely reduced to ashes, but the refined fat from the bodies of the dead red ants is gathered in the oil tank under the city wall, and a wall of fire is still burning violently.

The ghost-striped worker ants did not dare to approach half a step. They could only go around from the side mountain wall. The corpses of ghost-striped worker ants were piled up on both sides of the mountain wall. The fire under the city wall gradually spread to the side of the mountain wall. The corpses here It was not soaked in fire oil, so it couldn't burn, but there was billowing and choking smoke.

   There are often some red ants falling on the steep rock wall.

   "Slow down, we will kill one by one." Suldak looked at the ghost-striped red ants rushing out of the thick smoke, and said to Samira.

  Suldak ordered the two squadron leaders of the city defense guards to gather the city defense guards equipped with multi-shooter crossbows on the east and west sides of the city wall, mainly shooting the ghost-pattern soldier ants crawling over the rock wall.

   "Archers pay attention to the mountains on both sides of the canyon, and be careful not to let ghost-striped red ants come in." Suldak ordered.

  Samila turned over and climbed onto the bed, excitedly said to the city guard beside him: "Put in another one..."

  …

  This beast tide came a bit suddenly, but it was expected.

Residents in Duodan Town were waiting for the moment when the beast swarm came. They saw thick smoke billowing from the city wall, and the fire outside the city burned all night. They heard that the city was so hot that people could not stand on it, and people used hanging towers all night , Transport buckets of clean water up and pour it directly on the city wall.

Residents in the town were all discussing how many ghost-striped red ants were killed in the fire last night. I heard that the big red ants were picked out and killed individually. Those red ants were piled up behind the north city wall, a group of leather workers The shop boy is peeling the skin.

  Because those carapaces are too hard, skinning knives can't cut through them at all. At present, hand axes are used to split the hard armor.

  The master craftsman of the leather shop said that this kind of hard armor leather was useless, but it attracted many businessmen in the town to watch there.

  However, before the garrison commander Baron Suldak's approval, no one would dare to take these ghost-striped red ants even if they were all rotten.

  The merchants were quietly discussing in private how to buy the hard armor of these ghost pattern soldier ants from Commander Suldak.

They hope that Commander Suldak is as ignorant as that town's leatherworker and disposes of all these carapaces as garbage, and then they can transport these hard carapaces to Wilkes without spending too much money. The city can make a fortune.

   But seeing those leather shop guys in the town almost smashing the carapace completely in order to split the hard carapace, it is heartbreaking again.

  How can this thing be smashed with an axe!

  There are also two teams of mercenary members on the city wall. They have also joined in the hunting of ghost-striped soldiers and ants, and there is no danger in the day.

   That big guy looks like a bull. If there is no bed crossbow that can nail it to the stone wall on the side of the city wall, it will be doomed to take a lot of effort to defeat it head-on.

  For the members of the mercenary union, at present, only by assisting in the defense on the north city wall can they get a share of hunting monsters.

A few days ago, under the mobilization of Suldak, some mercenaries volunteered to defend the city wall. These mercenaries are all locals in Dodan Town. There is no reason to refuse.

  Once Dodan can't hold on, the family will be gone.

   There are also some mercenaries who can't understand Suldak's style of doing things. They don't want to take orders from Suldak, and they don't want to fight desperately on the top of the city, so they choose to give up participating in the defense of the city.

  These people hid at home, and occasionally got together, expecting those ghost-striped red ants to teach this eccentric garrison commander who likes to eat alone.

   Only in this way can he change his face, come to the door in person, and ask them to go to the city wall to help defend.

   When they were drinking afternoon tea, they even thought about how to climb the city wall and kill all directions.

  However... After a day and night of fierce fighting, the battle seems to have stabilized.

Those mercenaries who took the initiative to apply for defense on the city wall happily walked down from the city wall, and everyone gained a lot. After all, these mercenaries are very powerful in personal strength, and almost all of them directly participated in the hunting of ghost-striped red ants. Therefore, the rewards obtained are also very generous.

  The harvest of the mercenaries today is about three gold coins.

   Moreover, these mercenaries who actively apply for defense assistance will also be given priority when arranging the date of defending the city later.

  Those mercenaries who didn't take the initiative to apply for defense assistance at the beginning, but now see the rewards of assistance defense, want to apply for city defense assistance, they can only be incorporated into the reserve team and wait for the opportunity.

   For a while, I don’t know how many people are regretting.

  …

While the merchants were discussing how to carry out more trade and cooperation with the garrison in Dodan Town, Ms. Selina, the chief logistics officer of the garrison, summoned the merchants in the town and held a meeting in front of the warehouse of the city defense brigade. Distributor Conference.

  Surdak had just come down from the city wall when he was pulled here by Selina to participate in the dealer meeting.

In front of the warehouse of the city defense brigade, there were more than 30 merchants standing together. They were whispering together and talking about the battle situation on the top of the city wall today. No one expected that the garrison could block the first wave of beast horde so easily. .

  Once entering the battle rhythm, the next thing to do is to stick to it.

  And on the first day of persistence, more than 20 ghost pattern soldier ants have been hunted. Given the current market price of monster materials, this is not a small gain.

  Suldak did not expect so many merchants to come to the town during this period of time. He walked to the warehouse gate of the city defense brigade and stared at these merchants on the field.

  When everyone saw Suldak, the voices of talking and laughing became much quieter.

  Suldak stood at the warehouse door and asked the city guards to push open the warehouse door. It was almost full of low-level Warcraft leather, and a large wooden box was full of magic cores.

  The merchants whispered for a while...

   Everyone knows that the garrisons have hunted a large number of monsters recently, but they didn't expect the number to be so large.

  Suldak raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said:

   "I believe that many people present today are very concerned about the results of our garrison on the city wall, and also want to know how many monsters we have hunted before. Most of the results these days are in this warehouse."

   "I think the follow-up will continue to increase, but the latter are almost all magic materials from the ghost pattern soldier ants... every day, I think it will continue until the end of the beast tide."

"It is not difficult to obtain these monster materials. Whoever has arrows, kerosene, refined steel ingots, flax threads, feathers, finished arrow shafts, and a series of military supplies can be transported to Dodan Town. The merchants who sell these military supplies can get these magic materials at a price that is 20% lower than the market price."

   "Sorry, gold coins and magic crystals are temporarily unavailable for these Warcraft materials in Dodan Town."

  Suldak glanced at Selina and said, "I still have to hold a meeting, and you are in charge here."

   After finishing speaking, he took several squadron leaders of the cavalry battalion, quickly left the city defense brigade, and returned to the garrison camp.

  As soon as Suldak left, the merchants immediately became imposing.

   "Where do we go to find military supplies at this time?" A businessman in the crowd shouted loudly.

In addition, a businessman held up the money bag in his hand, shook the money bag in his hand, and protested to Selina: "Gold coins are the trading currency circulated in the Grimm Empire, so bartering like this is a violation of the Grimm Empire's laws." .”

   "We do not accept the proposal of the Commander."

   "Yes, we can't accept it anyway!"

  Businessmen at the scene said that they would not accept such a transaction, and their voices were very neat.

  Selena has been standing in front of the warehouse gate, silent.

  She listened quietly to the protests from the merchants, asked the warehouse management to lock the warehouse door, and then said:

   "Since this is the case, we won't force you. If you come to me next time, you won't get these magic materials at this preferential price, but at a price 10% lower than the market price."

   After she finished speaking, she didn't even look at these merchants, and said lightly:

   "You guys are thinking about it..."

   After finishing speaking, he turned and left.

  …

  Selena returned to the barracks, and she also had a lot of business to deal with. The materials she had recently obtained and the materials shipped by the logistics department had already consumed a lot of materials every day, and all the accounts were very chaotic.

  She wanted to sort out these accounts at the front, so she didn't even go to the city wall to take a look.

  A few clerks gathered around, constantly reporting some data to Selina.

  Selena just sat down at the desk in the wooden house, ready to drink a cup of hot tea, take a breath...

  She stretched out her hand to pick up the steaming teacup when she saw the clerk knocking on the door. Selina put down the teacup and looked at the clerk.

  The clerk immediately stood up straight and reported to Selina:

   "Ms. Selena, there is a businessman named Hoover who wants to talk to you in private..."

  Selena said calmly: "Please come in!"

  The clerk hurried out.

   Not long after, a businessman with a big belly walked in. His expression was a bit wretched, and he wanted to force a smile, but unfortunately he smiled reluctantly.

   "Ms. Selena, I want to buy some second-level Warcraft leather, and I happen to have some refined steel ingots..."

  Selina shook her head and said, "Stainless steel ingots can't be exchanged for Level 2 Warcraft leather. If you want this kind of high-grade leather, you have to get fire oil."

   "Then what can I get in exchange?" Hoover asked, wiping his forehead.

   "Elementary Warcraft leather and magic crystals are fine..." Selina said to the merchant Hoover.

Hoover was opposite Selena, put a note on the table, and said with some humility: "Then I want the primary Warcraft leather, which can be traded tonight, but you must keep it a secret for me, I don't want them knowing 'I broke my agreement with them'."

   "Understood, the transaction will be in front of the warehouse of the City Defense Brigade before dawn tomorrow morning!" Selina said to Hoover.

  Businessman Hoover took off his hat and saluted Selena, revealing his bald and slightly funny head...

  As soon as the businessman Hoover left, another businessman came to visit.

  They swore before that they would never trade with the garrison camp, but they came to them one after another, which made Selina a little overwhelmed.

  However, the fastest move was the Dodan Town Trading Company.

  Because they originally stocked some military supplies in the warehouse of the trading firm, and now they just took them out for trading, so naturally they quickly discussed the trading list with Selina.

  By the time Selena finished her work, it was completely dark.

  (end of this chapter)