Chapter 4 A flying shoe

Author: Bazang

Chapter 4 A flying shoe

Orange Town is a medium-sized port town. It was originally just an ordinary town, but it was not developed until it was selected as a logistics base by the Navy.

The entire town covers an area of ​​less than ten square kilometers, with a naval logistics base and a civil port. Its prosperity is barely in the East China Sea, and it is a bit remote.

Merchants in the East China Sea often use the town port as a supply point, and unknown pirates will often visit the town.

It can be said that Orange Town is mixed with fish and dragons, and when the navy is responsible for patrol in broad daylight, it only barely maintains order.

There are many street stalls on both sides of the market, with crowds of people and endless people.

Many vendors set up stalls to sell fish skins, seafood, weapons, ancient relics, etc., including some things called treasure map fragments.

Many strong men with big and thick waists and swords were swearing and bargaining, but they were obviously not good people.

In addition, you can occasionally see fishmen with fish fins on their bodies and weird heads swaying on the street. Most of them also carry swords and weapons, and look a bit cunning.

After all, it was the early days of the Great Pirate Age, and the East China Sea pirates were rampant enough to hang out under the navy's nose.

This also proves that today's world governments and navy have weak control over the East China Sea, so that pirates run around the ground in front of the navy's gate.

Martin was not surprised by this and went straight to a large grocery store in the center of the town. The sign "Kim Trading" was hung at the door of the grocery store.

This large grocery store is like a small supermarket. The cabinet on the left is filled with various foods, and the right is filled with various navigation equipment, emitting a mixed aroma. The counter in the middle is filled with weapons and consumables such as swords and steel ingots, which looks a bit alternative.

Martin tapped the counter table with his index finger: "Boss Kim, I'll give me 100 dried shrimps, 10 big ham, 10 turkey, 10 pounds of white fish, and 200 pounds of rice and flour each, and three cans of pepper, chili, salt, caviar, blueberry sauce, and plum sauce each."

After hearing this, the fat boss Kim, who was fiddling with the abacus, immediately raised his head, and his fat face was filled with smiles: "It turned out to be Warrant Officer Martin, welcome..."

"I resigned from the Navy and call me Martin from now on."

Martin reminded.

As the abacus crackled, Kim quickly raised his head: "There are 284,850 Baileys in total!"

"What? Two hundred and forty-four thousand... Bailey?"

After hearing this, Martin almost stopped his expression: "Hey, Kim, are you kidding? Why are the price suddenly rising so much? Usually, you can buy so many foods for 150,000 Baileys, which is almost doubled."

Kim quickly explained: "You don't know that the prices of raw materials in the town have increased so much recently. All the ingredients have increased. I have no choice but to do so. Now the prices are available on the market. If you don't believe it, you can go to other places to ask."

"I heard that the sea monster often attacked fishing boats and grain boats. Many people were afraid of capsizing, so they simply reduced their transportation and fishing. In addition, the number of pirates attacking merchant ships has increased a lot recently, resulting in poor transportation of many commodities and they could only increase their prices on site."

Damn...

In addition to the sea monster, the pirates also made trouble, which was the rhythm of disrupting the entire East China Sea.

It was estimated that the sea monster was the offshore king who bit off one arm of the future Four Emperors Red-haired Shanks in one bite.

I don’t know if Shanks has been bitten off one of his arms now.

Speaking of which, it took him a lot of money to get married, but now it is not enough to buy a piece of food, and it instantly turns into a pauper rhythm.

This world is really chaotic.

"Martin, do you still want this food?"

Kim looked at Martin with blue veins on his forehead and asked tentatively.

"I want it, pack it all and send it to me home."

Martin gritted his teeth: "Also, look at my knife."

Kim sighed in embarrassment: "Martin, as I said before, this store does not charge ordinary knives, there are too many of these goods."

Martin handed over the knife wrapped in a cloth strip: "I have two knives here, all of which are fast knives."

"All of them are fast knives?"

Kim reached out to take the bag and weighed it, with an extremely surprised expression on his face.

He opened the cloth bag, picked up two blades lying on it, looked at it carefully, his eyes gradually widened, and then stretched out his fingers to bounce the blade, making the blade make a light and crisp sound, and at the same time he listened with his ears.

"This knife pattern, this material, this sound, this smoothness... It's really a fast knife. One of the knife patterns looks good and sounds better. It can be regarded as a high-quality fast knife, and the other one is also good in the fast knife!"

After Kim carefully checked the two knives, his eyes shone brightly and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Martin, what are you planning to sell?"

Martin said casually: "Look at it, we are all old acquaintances, as long as the price is fair."

Kim raised his hand and crackled the abacus: "According to the market price, a fine fast knife is 350,000 Bailey."

"The price of an ordinary fast knife is usually between 100,000 and 150,000 Baileys. The quality of this knife is OK. I will charge you at the price of 200,000 Baileys."

"The total amount is 550,000 Baileys. In addition, I will reduce the amount of money to buy food to you by 280,000 Baileys. If you calculate this, you can get 270,000 Baileys."

"Do you think it's OK?"

"Okay, trade."

"Martin, I'll ask you, this time you suddenly took out a quick knife and even forged a high-quality quick knife. Could it be that you have made a breakthrough in the forging skills?"

While Kim Qin was counting the bills, he asked with a smile.

After looking at the other party’s face full of smiles, Martin nodded: “No, I’ve been lucky enough to break through, I’m already an intermediate knife forging maker!”

Kim's smile became even brighter: "Martin, I really did not see the wrong person. Congratulations..."

"I'll tell you a little bit about it. The Navy has recently controlled the transportation channels for iron ingots and steel ingots, especially the control of military materials such as steel ingots will become increasingly strict, and there will be a lot of room for price increases in the future."

Martin heard that Kim wanted to please him and sell his favors. After thinking about it, he simply pushed a few stacks of banknotes back, took out all the money he had on him, and spent 400,000 Bailey to ask for some iron ingots, a large number of steel ingots and two hundred kilograms of coke.

Iron ingots are not valuable. One hundred kilograms of iron ingots have 20,000 balis. The price of steel ingots has begun to rise, several times that of iron ingots. Now it is about one hundred kilograms of 80,000 balis.

Iron ingots need to be tempered by themselves, and are generally only used to forge ordinary swords. Steel ingots forging knives can be used directly. It is the main raw material for fast knives. Coke may also be out of stock recently.

This time I came out, my pockets were empty and penniless!

Fortunately, the supplies are in place.

"Martin, I will visit our store frequently in the future. I will give you discounts that others don't have..."

Before he finished speaking, a large black shoelace flew over the air. Martin felt a strong wind coming from behind, and immediately turned his head and dodged sideways.

As a result, the shoe hit Kim's face, smashing the other party's face so much that his face was covered with mud, and he took two steps back.

who?

Dare to launch a sneak attack?

Martin suddenly turned around, pressed Qianben Sakura's knife hilt at his waist with his hand, ready to draw his sword!
Chapter completed!