Doomsday Totem

Chapter 477 Story
The next morning, Tie Zha and the others had breakfast in the bar, and then came to Chunqiu Heavy Industry's office building again, where they met Qi Yun and his secretary.

"The price is too expensive." As soon as he entered the door, Cang Haiya threw the price list on the coffee table and said with suppressed anger.

"This..." Qi Yun said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Cang Lao, this is already the most fair price, if it is lower, we will lose money."

"Don't do it at a loss!" Cang Haiya said bluntly, frowning.

"Oh, Cang Lao, you are..." Qi Yun hurriedly stepped forward to hold his hand, and said, "How about this, Cang Lao, you can say as much as you want..."

While he was speaking, two old men appeared at the door of the reception room.They looked about six to seventy years old, all wearing old and white work clothes with badly frayed cuffs and collars.Taking a closer look, there is still a yellow number embroidered on the jacket pocket.

"Cang Lao." "I'm back." Qi Yun just wanted to say hello, but the other party spoke first.

Cang Haiya suddenly showed surprise, and quickly went up to meet him and said, "Mr. Xue, Mr. Huang, why are you all back?"

"Yes." "Come back and have a look." The two old men said with a smile.

"Come in and have a seat." Cang Haiya invited the two elders while holding hands.

"You have to do your work first." "We're just passing by, we'll get together later." The two old men postponed in unison, and winked at him at the same time.Cang Haiya understood immediately, turned his head to Qi Yun and said, "We'll talk about the business later, I'll catch up with two old friends first." After speaking, he left with the two elders under Qi Yun's hesitant gaze.

Seeing this, Tie Slag also got up and said, "You guys talk first, I'll go down for a walk." Anyway, if Cang Haiya is not here, we can't discuss business, so it's better to go down and hang around, so as not to stay here and stare at him, which is extremely embarrassing.In fact, Quinn also wanted to leave, but now he was acting as the boss and couldn't get away...

After leaving the office building, Iron Slag wandered around the factory.Weeds are overgrown here, and rusty machinery and equipment are piled up everywhere.Along the vaguely visible concrete road, through a small forest, and through a small basketball court, a small wooden house appeared on the low slope ahead.Looking up, there is a small flag on the roof, with the words "Qiji Store" written on it.

It is not difficult to see that this is a small shop that can be seen everywhere in the ground town. It usually sells some daily necessities and snacks, and occasionally does a small business of prohibited items.Approaching the small shop, I saw a few half-sized children squatting in the open space in front of the door, playing with glass marbles together, uttering one or two excited exclamations from time to time.

Looking at the children playing games, Tie Zha couldn't help thinking of the time in Tieshan Town.This is a very primitive game with a little gambling element.That is, the two sides take turns throwing glass marbles, and then hit the opponent's beads with the beads. Whoever hits the ball first wins, and the glass marbles belong to the winning side.Since the closer the beads are, the easier it is to hit, so this is a game of high skill and strategy.

He used to play this game with Lao Niu often, and won a big bag of glass marbles. If the Dwarf Mountain stronghold hadn't been burned, he probably would still be throwing it in a corner now.In order to win him once, Lao Niu practiced so much that his index finger was swollen.

Lao Niu is a very hardworking person, and his accuracy is much higher than him at the same distance, but he will make full use of the terrain and obstacles, and patiently circle with Lao Niu to avoid head-on confrontation.When the old cow loses his temper, he will turn around and break through.It's just that Lao Niu's patience is not worse than him in many cases.Once, he and the old cow played around a big rock for several hours. Finally, he was really impatient and moved the rock with brute force and won the game directly.Lao Niu was very unconvinced, saying that he was rambunctious, and stopped playing after that.

"Customer, what do you want to buy?" An old woman sitting in the small shop was slowly shaking the plantain fan. After seeing the iron slag, she got up and asked.

The dilapidated glass cabinet was covered with dust, and several cracked places were pasted with transparent tape. There were various snacks in it, including roasted peanuts, dried fried melon seeds, fried broad beans, dried fruit and dried meat. Wait, besides these common ones, there is even brown sugar!It is a kind of malt sugar product, which is mixed with some sesame seeds and peanuts. It is long and has a tough and chewy taste.

It has not been sold in Tieshan Town for many years, but I didn't expect it to be here.

"Here's a piece of brown candy." Iron Slag pointed to the candy wrapped in light red oiled paper in the cupboard.

"Two pieces for a copper plate," said the old woman.

"Is there anything else to drink?" Tie Slag took out a silver coin and put it on the glass cabinet.

In the world of Silver City, one gold coin is equal to ten silver coins, and one silver coin is equal to ten copper coins. Assuming that the purchasing power of one gold coin is one thousand, the purchasing power of one silver coin is one hundred, while the purchasing power of one copper coin is ten .I have to say that brown sugar is a very cheap item. At this price, it is not enough to buy half a kilogram of green vegetables.

"There are soy milk, fruit juice, carbonated water, beer..." The old woman opened the rusty refrigerator beside her and pointed to the colorful glass bottles inside.

"Have some soy milk," Tie Slag said.This is also a drink he loved to drink when he was a child. It is made from soybean flour and has a taste similar to milk.

"It's also half a copper plate." The old woman said.Then he took out a bottle of soy milk, opened it with a lid opener, and handed it to Iron Slag along with the brown sugar.

He took the hand, tore off the light red wrapping paper, took a bite, and the familiar taste immediately filled his heart.He couldn't help but think of Xiao Yu eating brown candy when he was young.That earnest, contented expression seemed to be eating the best food in the world.

I don't know if our Lord Praying for Rain still eats this?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. Then he waved his hand and said to the old woman, "The rest of the money will be exchanged for brown candy, and I will take it away."

"Okay..." The old woman replied with a smile on her face, put away the change she just found out, took a translucent plastic bag, blew open the mouth of the bag, and stuffed pieces of brown candy into it.

Then, Iron Slag sat down at the dilapidated small wooden table under the cloth shed in front of the store, drinking soy milk and eating tough brown candy while watching the children play marbles.

"Look, Brother Lu is here!" While playing, the children suddenly stood up and looked in one direction.

Following their gazes, they saw a strong man wearing a light-colored basketball vest walking towards them.His shoulders are very broad, his arms are also very thick, his exposed muscles are extremely solid, and his dark skin is shiny in the sun, making him look extremely strong.

"Brother Dali!" "Brother Lu!" Seeing the strong man, the children shouted excitedly.

"I didn't study hard at home, and ran out to play again." After approaching, the burly man scowled at the children who surrounded him and said seriously.

"Brother Dali, tell me a story." "We want to listen to the story, we haven't finished the last one." "Yeah!" "Brother Dali, please let us drink soda!" The children shouted in unison .

"There are so many stories to tell, don't embarrass me." The strong man said, walked to the front of the store, took out a few copper coins and threw them on the glass cabinet, and said, "Aunt Li, give each of them a bottle of carbonated water .”

"Dali, you don't earn much, don't mess around, save it to marry a wife." Although she said so, the old woman still put away the copper coins and opened a few bottles of carbonated drinks.The children immediately rushed forward and drank boisterously.

"Brother Dali, we want to listen to stories." "What you said last time, the story of the poem of the bright moon is very nice." "Yes, there is also the story of the rain that fell on the city." "This time, tell me a different story." Come on, we want to hear the story of the starless light." "No, no, I want to hear the story of the deep-sea harpoon." The children yelled at the strong man while drinking their drinks.

"It's gone, it's gone, everyone said it's gone." The brawny man stared wide-eyed like copper bells, pretending to be angry.

"I am Poetry of Haoyue, Lorenfell! Let the horse come over here!" a child said with great momentum, puffing out his chest.

"I'm Icehorn, Saxton!" A child kicked the burly man in the thigh.

"I am... I am..." A child scratched his head and thought for a while before saying, "I am Rain on the City, Zangwill." Then he kicked the strong man's ass.

"Okay, okay, you are all great heroes, stop fighting, I admit defeat." The strong man raised his hands, begging for mercy.

"Surrender requires telling a story!" "Yeah!" "Hurry up, hand in your guns and don't kill, tell a story."

"Okay, okay..." the brawny man spread his hands helplessly and said.

"Long live!" "Yeah!" "Victory!" The children cheered.

"But..." As he spoke, the burly man turned serious and said, "It's still the old rule. You can't tell the stories I tell to outsiders, or you will be in danger."

"Yes!" "Don't say it!" "I swear!" The children stood up straight and responded in unison, like little soldiers.

"Then..." the brawny man thought for a while, and said, "Today, I will tell you the story of the Salados family, Starless Light."

Then, the strong man sat down beside the big tree in front of the small store, touched the head of one of the children, and asked, "Do you still remember what I told you last time about the conditions for the Brilliant Family to obtain the title? "

"Remember!" the children responded in unison.

"What's that?" the brawny man asked.

"300 years of perseverance, 300 years of glory." The children answered in unison.

"Yes!" The strong man gave a thumbs up and said, "If you want to win the title bestowed by the Glorious Prophet, you have to spend 300 years and the perseverance and glory of several generations to prove yourself."

"Light Without Stars, just as the title implies, the Salados have accomplished a feat that is unimaginable to the world. With the efforts of several generations, it took 230 years to explore the vast and boundless sea of ​​mirrors..."

In this way, under the expectant eyes of the children, the strong man told the story of the past.

Around 2700 BDr, 300 years before the first year of the Awakening Era, a fishing boat discovered a space crack in the Mirror Sea plane in the Central Sea.

The Salados family was ordered to explore the Mirror Sea. They built twelve deep-sea exploration ships, formed an expedition team, and entered the Mirror Sea plane to explore.However, more than ten years later, the expedition team never returned, and there was no news.Since the sea of ​​mirrors is endless and there is no satellite communication, once you lose your way, you will never find the way back.

In order to complete the mission, the Salados family once again organized an expedition into the Mirror Sea.However, the second expedition lost contact.So, one expedition after another set off.In the next 230 years, the Salados organized nine expeditions, but without exception, they got lost in the vast sea, known as "the most desperate expedition" in history.In order to prevent the Salados family from perishing, the brilliant prophets of that generation imprisoned them.

A hundred years later, an expedition team from the Western Continent discovered a drifting bottle left by the Salados near the entrance of the Mirror Sea plane, and thus mastered the law of magnetic field changes on the Mirror Sea plane, and finally conquered the Boundless the sea.

And those Sarados who died, like the stars in the dark night, guide the future generations.

(End of this chapter)