Chapter 42 Buying Slaves
Although Wang Xing can stop it, every time Wang Xing says that Zixuan is not allowed to enter her mental space at will, Zixuan hangs her head with an expression like "I will cry if you don't let me in", which makes Wang Xing
Star is helpless.
"Not enough." Zixuan shouted and threw a series of mental punctures at her again. Fortunately, Zixuan still knew how to control her strength, otherwise Wang Xing would have rolled all over the floor.
"By the way, where are you now?" Wang Xing tried to change the subject, trying to deal with Zixuan's trick that worked every time.
As soon as Zixuan entered the city, a bee escaped and she hasn't come back yet. Fortunately, she was a clone, otherwise Wang Xing would have been searching for the bee all over the city.
"Well... I was flying around the city, and then I got lost. I don't know where I am now?" came Zixuan's somewhat embarrassed voice.
"Won't you find it through the contract?" Wang Xing felt a toothache.
"Ah! I forgot." Zixuan shouted.
"Then go quickly."
"Oh, that's not right. Are you so eager to let me go because you want to find that bad woman again?" Wang Xing was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but Zixuan's tone changed and she came back.
"No, I'm going to bed." Wang Xing immediately denied.
"It must be, otherwise why are you so anxious to drive me away?" Zixuan said reluctantly.
"When can I enter the spiritual space?" Wang Xing didn't want to get entangled with her, so he used the old method of changing the subject.
"Just wait until your mental power reaches a high level." Successfully changed the topic again.
"Then how long do I have to wait?" Wang Xing sighed.
When a warrior is promoted, his mental power will also increase to a certain extent, but in order to reach high-level mental power, his physical strength must at least reach that of a master, which is still far away!
"Why don't you practice spiritual power? You humans should all practice martial arts! Your soul is very strong and you can become a spell caster." Zixuan also asked very strangely.
"Can I really become a spell caster?" Wang Xing was delighted. He had never had the opportunity to test whether he could become a spell caster. After all, he was a necromancer outside.
"Of course, otherwise your soul would have been destroyed by the shock to my soul back then." Zixuan said seriously and firmly.
Hearing Zixuan's words, Wang Xing couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Sleep."
He planned to find a meditation technique tomorrow to cultivate his mental power first. Anyway, he did not want to have the trouble of changing the meditation technique for a warrior. In fact, Wang Xing did not know that he already had mental power, otherwise he would not have been able to pass the mental power with Dian Wei before.
Waves speak.
There was no talk the whole night. In the morning the next day, Wang Xing finished washing up under Du Ting's service. Only then did he realize that there were only two living people in the huge manor. Dian Wei was a high-level skeleton and was not considered a living person.
Wang Xing asked Du Wei to help order the meal last night. Wang Xing thought it was just that there was no chef, but he didn't expect there was nothing.
However, if you think about it, even if Du Wei leaves some people, would Wang Xing dare to use them? It would be better to simply withdraw them all, lest Wang Xing be suspicious and think that he wants to plant spies.
"You didn't have dinner yesterday?" Wang Xing asked awkwardly, twitching the corner of his mouth.
"It's okay." Du Ting said softly.
"First find a place to have breakfast, then go to the slave market and buy some slaves." Wang Xing said and led the way to the manor. As for Zixuan, who had been quiet early in the morning, she probably ran out to play again.
It must be said that the residents of Xijin City are very adaptable. Yesterday there was a war, but today many people are open for business.
After having a special breakfast on the chaotic plain, Du Ting led us to the only slave market in Xijin City - Phantom Slave Shop, one of the top ten chambers of commerce in the mainland, a quasi-emperor-level force, consisting of more than a dozen slave-catching groups
Composed and controlled the slave trade on the continent.
As long as there is war, there will be their presence. Wang Xing found that the development of this world was a bit deformed. The relationship between the royal families and nobles of various countries was just like the princes and princes and kings of Blue Star in ancient times.
Each noble has his own territory and private soldiers. In his own territory, the nobles are similar to the emperor. Sometimes the nobles of the country will also initiate war against the nobles of the country. The royal family usually only mediates and does not participate.
In wars, nobles are also a special group. When two countries fight and nobles are captured, they can be released as long as the noble family is willing to pay a ransom.
Ordinary soldiers are not so lucky. Some elite kingdoms may redeem them, while others are bought as war slaves to slave traders.
War is one of the main sources of phantom slaves. Sometimes, they will take risks and plunder some remote villages in the kingdom in order to capture slaves. Of course, most of the kings of such kingdoms are stupid and unscrupulous, and the nobles in the country conquer each other and have no time to take care of those remote villages.
The slave-catching group of the Phantom Slave Company will also go deep into the northern wilderness or enter the ocean to capture fox mermaids, etc. Some orcs who are popular among human nobles will dare to capture even the elves in the dream forest as long as there is demand.
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Walking into the slave market, there was no mess as Wang Xing imagined, so the slaves stood quietly in small rooms for people to choose from. Maybe because of the war, there were not many people in the slave market at this time.
"The lord is here, I am not welcoming you from afar, I am rude and disrespectful." Wang Xing had just taken Du Ting for a walk when a middle-aged man wearing gorgeous clothes, with a fat body and a glint in his eyes from time to time walked over quickly and said.
"Lord, this is Jiang Zhendong, the owner of the Phantom Slave Market in Xijin City." Du Ting took the initiative to introduce.
"Hello, Miss Du." Jiang Zhendong also said hello with a smile.
Du Ting nodded and said nothing. Wang Xing took over and said: "Master Jiang, I need some slaves."
"If the lord wants any slaves, just ask and they will be given free of charge." Jiang Zhendong said with a smile. He would do business in Xijin City in the future, and it was important to have a good relationship with Wang Xing.
"It's free of charge as a gift. I still have this small amount of money." Wang Xing refused without hesitation. Now that he has received the benefits, he may have to pay it back tenfold or a hundredfold in the future.
"What kind of slave does the lord need? I just got a well-trained cat girl slave two days ago. Would you like to see it?" Jiang Zhendong said with an undiminished smile and a hint of obscenity.
Hearing Jiang Zhendong's words, Du Ting's heart tightened, and her big beautiful eyes stared at Wang Xing, waiting for Wang Xing's answer.
"No, how many people do you think our manor needs?" Wang Xing shook his head and looked at Du Ting.
"The lord has decided for himself." Du Ting's cheeks suddenly turned crimson.
"I'm just asking you because I don't know." Wang Xing rolled his eyes, not understanding why Du Ting, who was so good, suddenly blushed.
Anyway, he really doesn’t know how many people are needed to run a manor. If he buys too much, he will raise a group of idle people. If he buys too little, he will have to make another trip, which is troublesome.
"We need one housekeeper, one accountant, three cooks, thirty maids, and thirty servants." Du Ting counted on her fingers.
"Is that all?" Wang Xing asked as Du Ting stopped.
"Well, that's enough." Du Ting thought about it again, and nodded after confirming that nothing was missing.
"Mr. Jiang, take a look, are there the people I need?" Wang Xing turned to Jiang Zhendong and said.
"Yes, yes, there happened to be a noble butler who did something wrong and was sold into a slave trade. He just transferred to me." Jiang Zhendong said with a smile.
Professional housekeepers are high-end goods and are valuable. Generally, professional housekeepers do not belong to the slave class. They need to be recruited by the nobles at a high price. Only if they make a big mistake and are unable to repay, will they be sold by the nobles.
"Oh, bring it over and have a look." Wang Xing also knew that housekeepers were rare slaves. If he couldn't buy them, Wang Xing was going to let Du Ting be the housekeeper first.
"Go and bring No. 1 here." Jiang Zhendong randomly found someone to bring him, and he accompanied Wang Xing to select cooks, maids, and servants. The accountants also belong to relatively high-end slaves, and currently, he doesn't have any here.
He didn't care about choosing Wang Xing, so he threw them all to Du Ting and let her choose. Wang Xing was waiting for the housekeeper and slave.
Wang Xing was not kept waiting for a long time, and a middle-aged man who looked a little tired was brought over. Although the clothes on the middle-aged man were washed and turned white, he was dressed very neatly, giving people a rigorous feeling.
"Master Jiang." The middle-aged man bowed to Jiang Zhendong first, and Jiang Zhendong took good care of him.
"Li Yi, come on, let me introduce you. This is Lord Wang Xing, and entering the city westward is his territory." Jiang Zhendong was quite polite to him, after all, he expected him to get a good price.
"Hello, Lord." Li Yi respectfully greeted Wang Xing, who is most likely to be his future master.
"What did you commit?" Wang Xing was more concerned about this.
Li Yi remained silent and did not speak. Jiang Zhendong said for him: "Actually, Li Yi was framed and involved in an internal fight within a big family."
"Is he from that kingdom? It's not easy to be alive after being involved in a fight within a big family." Wang Xing frowned even more, this was obviously abnormal.
"Li Yi is from Tianhaizong." Jiang Zhendong answered again.
Tianhai Sect, Wang Xing knows, is a real quasi-emperor-level force with king-suppressing weapons, not a pseudo-quasi-emperor like Phantom. It is located next to the Shenwu Empire. Its main development direction is the ocean, and it spans several kingdoms from Xijin City.
, nearly ten million miles.
Wang Xing said nothing and still looked at Jiang Zhendong. He only answered one question and left the other one unanswered.
Knowing that he couldn't escape, Jiang Zhendong smiled and said: "He has a daughter who is very talented and has joined the Tianhai Sect, so..."
In fact, the person in charge of Tianhaizong only learned the news after buying it. No one there dared to touch it, so he changed hands to Chaotic Plains.
Wang Xing immediately understood that that big family still wanted to hang out within the Tianhai Sect's sphere of influence. If Li Yi was killed, if Li Yi's daughter gained power, it would be a fight to the death. But it would be different if he sold it. At least he would still be alive and there would be room for recovery.
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Similarly, Jiang Zhendong does not dare to offend Li Yi too much. If he accidentally kills Li Yi, Phantom may be fine, but he is definitely dead. No one in Phantom will stand up for him, even if he doesn't add insult to injury.
Chapter completed!