Douqi Continent, Gama Empire, and Mocheng.

In an inconspicuous corner, there is an ordinary small shop.

On the plaque of the shop, the two big characters "Ancient Picture" are printed in it, which looks quite old.

Such a store is inconspicuous in Mocheng. Even if you pass by the door, it will definitely not attract too much attention.

The overall store is simple. After entering the store, what catches your eye is the wooden frames on both sides. Various books and drawings are arranged neatly on the wooden frames. From the side, you can also faintly see some runes and characters on them.

Perhaps because of the long time, the drawings of the books turned slightly yellow and looked a little old.

In the center of the store is a rather neat long wooden table, which is used as a counter.

There were a lot of parchment paper on it, and a gray-haired old man was concentrating on writing and drawing on a clean parchment paper with a black wolf-haired pen, quite focused.

Next to the old man, a handsome boy with a handsome face, about fourteen or fifteen years old.

The table in front of the boy was neat and there was no extra debris. His slender palms were fiddling with a gold coin in his hand, bumping and banging on the wooden table, regardless of the feelings of the old man beside him, creating a messy noise.

The store was illuminated by the halo emitted by the moonstone, and the guests were wandering around in groups of three or three, occasionally picking up drawings to check.

"Boy, how much does this map cost?" A burly man came to the counter and looked at the old man who was concentrating on making the map. He found that he didn't look up and paid attention to it, and then turned to the leisurely boy and said.

I saw that the boy didn't raise his head and slowly stretched out his two fingers.

"Twenty gold coins?" The burly and strong man hesitated and looked at the map again.

However, he didn't say anything else, but took out twenty gold coins from his arms and placed them on the table, and walked outside.

"There is not enough money." Just as the strong man was about to step out of the store, the lazy voice of the boy came from behind him.

"Why isn't it enough? Twenty gold coins, a lot of each." The strong man frowned and said to the young man.

"There are indeed twenty gold coins here, but the map you have in your hand is sold at a price of two hundred gold coins."

"What? Why don't you grab two hundred gold coins?" The burly and strong man slapped the table suddenly, shaking the gold coins scattered on the table jumped up.

The strong man's move attracted the attention of the rest of the store. Some people were smiling, as if they were not surprised by this matter, and looked like they were watching the show.

Some people were also secretly amazed at the expensive price of the map. At this moment, the map in their hands seemed to have become a hot potato and was silently put back on the wooden shelf.

The old man on the side frowned, and his dry palm holding the black pen paused for a moment.

"The money is not enough to sell maps to make money."

The boy threw the gold coins in his hand upwards, and the gold coins kept rolling in the air, and then the boy grabbed them into his hand.

The boy held his chin with one hand: "If you can't afford the price, please ask for another place. However, in the Mocheng, the maps sold here have the highest accuracy and the quality is absolutely guaranteed. And when you go to other stores to buy, hehe, don't regret any dangers in the desert at that time."

"Even if your map is of good quality, the sale price is too expensive." The burly and strong man looked ugly.

The mercenary team he formed took on a mission and was about to go to the Tagor Desert. When he found out that the map here was the most detailed, he was planning to buy a copy here to increase the success rate of the mission.

Because the other mercenary groups introduced that the map here not only records large and small routes, but also marked some dangerous locations that are prone to encounter monsters, which greatly increased the survival rate of adventurers who go to the desert.

But he obviously didn't expect that the price of a map would be so expensive.

"It's up to you to buy it or not." The boy yawned and said indifferently.

The burly and strong man hesitated, finally gritted his teeth, took out the purse in his hand, and told all the gold coins inside.

"There are still forty gold coins left." The young man glanced at him and knew the number of these gold coins, and he reminded him.

"Can you give me a discount? These are the gold coins on my body." The strong man's dark face turned red. All his money was used to buy elixirs for healing and equipment to go to the desert. Now that he has emptied his body, only these gold coins are left.

"You should have a herb in your arms, right? Hand over that herb and you can take this map."

The strong man's face changed and he blurted out: "How do you know?"

He subconsciously touched a dry dry grass in his arms. It was a medicinal plant he accidentally obtained in the last mission, but it was still not enough to sell it.

He took out the medicinal materials and spoke: "The low-level medicinal materials are sold at Dan Pharmacy for about 80 gold coins."

The hint is self-evident!

"The price of 80 gold coins is sold. If they buy it from you, the price will never exceed 50 gold coins. Besides, your medicinal material has been stored for too long and is not properly stored, and it is already the limit to reaching forty gold coins." The boy said slowly.

The strong man frowned and felt a little angry, but for the sake of safety of this trip, he reluctantly put down the medicinal materials, then picked up the map and walked outside.

"Welcome to come again next time." The young man smiled and waved at the burly and strong figure.

The strong man muttered a word of indescribable, walked out of the door without looking back, then rushed into the street and disappeared into the crowd.

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"The second-level Xuanling Grass is not bad."

Seeing the herbs that were still well preserved although shriveled, the young man smiled. The strong man thought it was just a low-level herb, but he didn't think it was a second-level herb.

The price of low-level medicinal materials is about 100 gold coins, while the value of higher-level second-level medicinal materials can be increased by eight to ten times.

However, this medicinal material has been stored for too long, and the branches are shriveled due to water loss, and the medicinal power is severely lost, which greatly reduces its value.

I saw the boy kneading the herbs into small pieces, stuffing them into his mouth, and chewing them carefully.

The old man next to him seemed to have not seen this strange behavior, and he was still drawing the drawings in his hands attentively.

As for why it is weird?

The medicinal materials you usually get will be sold in pharmacies and alchemists' guilds, unless you are an alchemist who can extract the medicinal liquid from many medicinal materials and refine them into pills.

As for taking medicinal materials alone, if it is not the level of heaven and earth treasures, otherwise, chewing them like a boy will only lose the medicinal power in vain and improve their own strength will be minimal.

The dry medicinal herbs were eaten by the boy like a peerless delicacy. After chewing it carefully, he swallowed it in one bite, and finally licked his lips with unfulfilled pleasure.

His eyes shifted, and the boy looked at the gold coins on the wooden table.

Divide the gold coins into two parts, take out one of the gold coins, and look at the golden gloss, the boy's dark starry eyes also flashed with a trace of golden.

After looking at the scene in the store, the guests were focusing on checking the drawings, and no one else paid attention to the situation here.

The boy seized the opportunity and bounced his fingers, and the gold coins in his hand drew a graceful arc in the air and was accurately thrown into his mouth.

Then, the old man beside the young man heard a crackling sound from the metal crushing and the vague voice.

"On the right time!"

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Chapter completed!