Can you become stronger without paying money?

"It seems that he is indeed the boss of big business..." Grizzly Potter stepped forward to greet the two with a grin, but his size of two meters away and the surface area of ​​a bear are really worthy Even though he tried his best to make his smile look more friendly, the people who saw him still unconsciously thought that he was thinking about how to seek money and kill himself.

At least Riel thinks that this Grizzly Potter was born in the wrong era. If it were on Earth, it would be a proper actor-level configuration just by this face. This outfit plus this natural temperament, it is really You don't even need to put on makeup, and you can find a meal wherever you need a villain by turning left when you go out.

"The big boss is nothing..." Seeing Porter walking in front of him, Riel put away the equipment... This thing comes with a blood loss BUFF when equipped. It would be embarrassing if it was buckled to death, and there is no need to pretend to be forceful now, naturally put it away quickly, and Riel coughed lightly when it was done, explaining his situation.

He is indeed not a big boss, in fact he is poorer than anyone here... Because he is basically poor and white now, and there is no big guy in his body that can be used in this world, but it doesn't matter, our Sa Philly has money in her pocket!

That's right, this shameless guy has already labeled Harem No. [-] on Sapphire, who is still a stranger by his side, without integrity.

Safiley also seems to have guessed the reason why Riel asked her to accompany her to act together... Before Riel activated the Elven Vault, he couldn't even take out a single copper coin. Of course, Safieli knows his financial situation.

Fortunately, Riel knew the details of Sapphire... She was indeed a type who was not short of money.

"We want to find someone to help open a lock, well, it's not convenient here."

As soon as Sapphire said this, Potter knew the rules, and he didn't even open his mouth. The boys around him immediately muttered, "Oh, my clothes are confiscated", "There's still meat in the pot", "Go out and get some extra cash!" "Wait for the content that was fake at first glance, and ran away in a blink of an eye, only a few people with well-proportioned bodies and slender fingers and Luo Lifei who led the way for Ruier and the two stayed.

Riel took a look at those people and knew that they were all "thieves", and they should all be good at picking locks, and they belonged to people who might be used in the future.

And Fei is Potter's adopted daughter, and she brought her. Of course, she must follow along. When she saw that loli, who was no taller than Riel's chest, running back to the strong man like a giant bear with a smile, she felt a strong feeling. The height difference really makes people can't help but want to complain.

"Then, come in and talk."

Potter pushed open the door of White Windmill and motioned for everyone to go in and talk.

The mill itself has been abandoned, so it looks like a mill from the outside, but it has actually been transformed into the base camp of the white windmill inside. After sitting down, Riel finally took out the treasure box from the character's luggage.

The treasure chest itself is not big, about the size of a large jewelry box, but it is very heavy in the hand, and the heavy feel makes people look forward to the contents inside.

"Oh, it looks like a good thing..."

Potter just glanced at the treasure chest itself, and immediately came to this conclusion. It can be said that his vision is indeed quite accurate.

The treasure chest itself was designed by Riel, and he would know what was inside without opening it, and Safiri knew the origin of the treasure chest, the secret treasure left by the ancient elves, no matter how low the level was, how could she be worthy of the ancient treasure chest? The identity of the elf.

But Potter obviously didn't know the details of the treasure chest, and he could be sure that the contents inside were good just by looking at the treasure chest.

"How about it, can it be opened?"

Hearing Riel's question, Potter didn't answer directly. Instead, he looked at the treasure box carefully, and then glanced at Riel. Riel knew what he meant and pushed the treasure box in his direction.

After all, this treasure chest is a treasure, and the rightful owner is owned by Riel. Before Riel gave his consent, Potter naturally couldn't touch it, otherwise who would be responsible for breaking it?

Now that Riel has agreed, of course Potter will not be polite. He carefully picked up the rusty treasure chest, then stretched out his fingers to click on the keyhole, and a gray breath emerged from his fingertips. penetrated into the keyhole.

"Oh……"

Potter raised his eyebrows, and the expression on his face widened.

"...the lock cylinder has no rust at all, it's simple."

Looking at the rusty appearance of the treasure chest before, Potter was very worried that the lock cylinder would also rust to death. If this is the case, then it will be more difficult to open the lock.

There is no need to try to break the lock violently. If you can break the lock with brute force, Ruier opened the lock with a sword by himself early in the morning, why bother to find someone to open it.

There is a special protection magic on this special treasure box. The higher the level of the treasure box, the more powerful the protection magic is. If you use abnormal means to forcibly break the treasure box, the protection magic will take effect immediately, and it will directly destroy the treasure box. The contents of the treasure chest are destroyed together, so that the person who opens the chest can get nothing.

Without the key and the correct unlocking method, only the thief's unlocking skills can safely open the treasure chest without disturbing or destroying the protection magic.

"No problem, we can open this treasure chest, then, let's talk about the reward."

Safili immediately reached out her hand and pressed it on the table without changing her expression, and pressed a small round thing that had been hidden in her palm on the table. When she took her palm away, the dazzling golden flash was really Dazzling people.

Except for some special currency used in special circumstances, what Safili now takes out is the currency with the highest circulation in Grand Duke Sofia, which is the so-called gold coin.

According to the ratio of one hundred to one hundred gold coins and silver coins, the purchasing power of one gold coin is...

... Five thousand soft sister coins!

But before it was over, Safili put her hand on the table again, and immediately, two more gold coins appeared on top of the original gold coin.

... Three gold coins, fifteen thousand oceans!

"I said..." Riel knew about Sapphire's background, but it would be too strange if there was really no performance here, so Riel deliberately put on a helpless tone, "Where the hell are you?" Miss from home, why do you want to be an adventurer when you are so rich, wouldn’t it be good to be a rich lady at home honestly?”

Sapphire immediately gave him a blank look, "You really don't know, or are you pretending to be stupid?"

"Ahem, okay, you pretend I didn't say anything~"

Although Safiley didn't know that Riel already knew her true identity, Riel must have known that Safieli was an elf envoy, so Safieli became an adventurer for a good reason. In order to find the elf relics Obtain the power of the elves in the ruins.

Therefore, from Sapphire's perspective, Riel should know why she became an adventurer.

"Well, is this enough?"

Potter was still shocked by the generosity of Sapphire. In fact, even one gold coin was enough, but since Sapphire gave three times the money, there must be other demands.

"...Well, that's enough, so let's talk, what else do you want me to do?"

"It's nothing. We asked you to open the lock today. Except for the people here, we must not let anyone else know. You are too, and so are others."

Simply put, this is "hush money".

Regarding this, Potter smiled generously, "No problem, you can rest assured about the confidentiality of Baifengche. The matter of opening the lock here, as long as you leave this door, it will disappear from my memory immediately."

"Very good, then...we have a deal~"

Chapter 12 Eleven company, turn up!

As soon as the word "deal" was uttered, Potter immediately found a person from behind and motioned him to be in charge of unlocking the lock. , a few more thin needles of different thicknesses and lengths appeared on the fingertips.

Thief lockpicking skills must be matched with related props. The props vary greatly depending on individual skills. A few thin needles can be said to be the most royal configuration. Many times, the props used by some powerful thieves to open locks are simply unimaginable... Someone An old driver with excellent craftsmanship, the prop to unlock the lock is a thin card. Since his debut with great skills, he has never met any lock that can last 5 minutes in front of his card.

Potter took these as anecdotes and told Riel and Sapphire when the subordinate was unlocking the lock. It was also used to pass the time, and by the way, it seemed to have the intention of getting close to Riel.

Of course Riel knew his intentions, and he was just chatting casually anyway, so he said casually, "Oh, you said that, I've heard the name of 'Old Driver' York, but, in fact, he can't open the lock. The card I used~"

Riel suddenly lowered his voice a bit, and his tone also had some seductive taste, "Cards and such are just a cover-up. A thief of his level is most afraid of being seen through by others, so He deliberately used the card as a cover, in order to cover up his true craftsmanship~"

Originally, Potter was the leader of the chat topic, but Riel guided the focus of the topic to him by following his topic.

"Oh, there is another saying?"

Sure enough, Potter and everyone around were interested, and even Sapphire gave Riel a strange look, but Riel didn't notice it, chuckled twice, and then continued the conversation.

"Of course, in fact, York used the ring worn on his right hand to unlock the lock. There was a thin needle hidden in it. He usually used a card to cover up the lock when he opened it. In fact, the problem was solved by the thin needle in the ring. It's not just him, many other weird thieves are actually the same, and those weird tools are just a trick to cover up their real skills."

"...Where did you hear these things?"

Riel's statement doesn't sound like random nonsense. In fact, if he said it like this, it would explain the weirdness of those thieves quite well, but if Riel didn't just talk nonsense, where is he Knowing these should be considered secrets?

"Well, didn't I tell you that when we met? I'm a wandering adventurer. I wander around a lot. If I see a lot, I'll naturally know more. It's nothing strange~"

Safiley immediately gave him a supercilious look. Safiley remembered the appearance of the two when they met for the first time. Riel was sleeping alone in the wild without any defense. He realized that if he hadn't been woken up by Sapphire, he might have been taken for lunch by a passing monster.

However, after traveling all the way, Ruier did show enough fighting strength and self-protection ability... Although his fighting awareness and skills are unbelievably bad, his foundation is extremely solid, even now... Safi Li felt that Riel might be pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

The two different judgments were intertwined, which made Sapphire more and more curious about Riel.

...However, we know that in most cases, once a female character develops curiosity about the creature that is the male protagonist...then it is not far from falling into the trap and being washed into the harem.

"Okay, done..."

A few people here chatted casually for about ten minutes, and Porter's subordinates over there had successfully unlocked the lock. In order to avoid suspicion, he moved his hands under the noses of the two of Riel the whole time. After unlocking the lock, he did not open the box to confirm. Instead, he handed the box to Riel.

Ruier took the box and opened it a little. After confirming that the lock had indeed been opened, he was not sure what was inside, so he stuffed it into the character's luggage. Anyway, Ruier knew what was inside, and he knew it without looking.

"Then, happy business."

Now that the matter has been done, there is of course no need to continue to stay in such an uncomfortable place in the old city for a long time. Riel and Sapphire left the mill of the white windmill one after another. Before leaving, Riel suddenly As if thinking of something, he turned his head and said something to Potter without thinking.

"By the way, Brother Potter, I have a nonsense here, just listen to it casually. It may not be very peaceful in the old town tonight. Please be more careful then."

It is hard for people to believe that such a sentence suddenly came out without evidence, but since Riel dared to say that, of course he had already thought of an explanation for himself, and he pointed to his temple, "Well, In fact, I know a little bit of prophecy, of course, at a very superficial level, and I can only roughly know the direction of some fortunes. I made a prophecy when I was chatting just now, and I came to this conclusion. In short, low-level prophecy is largely It's very unstable, so it's just 'nonsense', you've heard about it~"

Riel didn't talk too much, and even used the trick of magic stick to make Potter stunned. It's almost like "what is he talking about?! It sounds amazing, but why can't I understand a word?" This level.

But Sapphire next to her had a look of pain on her face, "...Prophecy, are you serious? I didn't know that Prophecy could get such a straightforward answer as 'something bad will happen tonight'" .”

Yes, generally speaking, things like prophecy usually only get vague answers like three or five lines of poetry, and most of the time, people have to wait until the prophecy happens before giving people a feeling of "Oh, so it That’s what I’m talking about!” Such a feeling.

And the definite conclusion that Riel came to was obviously beyond the scope of prophecy, and it was definitely at the level of a magic stick.

"Well, don't care, don't care, then, as a reward for asking Sapphire to help and pay for me, this thing will be given to you."

Riel took out an item from the treasure box in his luggage, and threw it towards Safieli. Safieli responded well, and subconsciously took it immediately, but she just glanced at it and was stunned.

"Hey, do you know what this is?"

"Well, I know, I also know that this thing is useless to me, but it is very important to you, so let's use it as a reward for asking you for help this time~"

"..."

The corners of Safieli's mouth twitched wildly, and in the end she could only carefully put away the beautiful looking stone. Originally, Safieli's idea was that helping Riel this time just repaid the initial life-saving. Well, it is convenient to part ways after the grievances are cleared up.

But Riel knew what she was thinking, how could he let Safiley repay his kindness so easily?So without hesitation, he took out a reward that Sapphire could not refuse as "reward".

And looking at Safiley's egg-pained expression, Riel's reward this time far exceeds what Safieli paid for helping Riel this time, anyway, it's basically three gold coins.

"Are you serious? You should know the value of this thing, right?"

Although she had already put the things away, Safili still couldn't hold back and asked again. If Riel regretted it now, she would take out the things again without hesitation. The original setting for her was With such a personality, Riel, who knew this, immediately chased after him without hesitation.

"If you think I'm at a disadvantage, you can pawn us gold coins to make up the price difference. I just happen to be short of travel expenses now~"

"...In this way, you will still be at a disadvantage, this thing." Sapphire was walking side by side with Riel on the way out of the old city at the moment, and when she said this, she carefully looked around to make sure that no one nearby saw it. Then I carefully added, "For those who need it... it is worth at least three hundred gold coins. For me, it is a treasure that I have to get even if I lose everything!"

"...Hehe, I'm just joking, three hundred gold coins is indeed a huge sum of money, but to you, it's far from going bankrupt~"

According to the purchasing power of one gold coin and five thousand soft sister coins, three hundred gold coins is a huge sum of 150 million, but Safili did not refute Riel's words, and seemed to acquiesce in the statement "this level is not enough to make you bankrupt".

After dismissing the topic lightly, the two had arrived at the junction of the old city and the main city, which was the exchange point where "the style of painting changes in a second".

"Then, leave it alone, but if my 'prophecy' is correct, we will meet again soon~"

When the two were about to separate, Riel said something like this, and Sapphire was so tormented by her that she didn't know what expression to show. It is true that the two had not known each other for a long time, but Riel Er has successfully left a deep impression on Sapphire, probably the feeling of "you have successfully caught my attention".

So now hearing Riel say that, Safili really had a feeling in her heart, will we really meet again soon?

Of course, she immediately got rid of this unfounded and unrealistic idea, and after saying goodbye politely, Riel watched Safiley leave.

"Okay, then prepare for the meeting later and the upcoming plot..." Riel looked at Sapphire's back, touched his chin with a smile, "It's time for me to make some preparations, a legendary Weapons are still not enough, at least I need to prepare some other hole cards, just right, the treasure should let me make a good fortune, so let me try it... The eleven treasure chests in the mall are ready~"

Chapter 13 Eleven company, turn up!

As the human city closest to Danquan Forest, Karot, which is barely considered a third-tier tourist city, naturally cannot lack the indispensable town essentials in RPG games... a hotel.

That's right, it's the kind of magical place where you pay the money after entering, and the screen goes back to being filled with blood blue as soon as it goes black and then lights up, and no matter how many people go to the hotel, they all pay a room fee, that is to say, even if The whole team of six men and women lived in one room theoretically.

As for whether any interesting things will happen during this period, I can only say that I believe that there are lonely men and widows in this world who play a ladder game all night in the same room. After all, I am a person who still believes in Santa Claus until now. Existence, good boy with dreams (funny)~

Okay, let’s get far, let’s get back to the topic...

It didn't take much effort for Riel to find a pretty good hotel in Karot City, and he used the gold coins traded from Sapphire to book the best room on the top floor.

"Sir, can I put the food you ordered here for you?"

Because Riel didn't carry a piece of luggage, there was no need to ask the hotel waiter to help carry the bag. After booking the room, because I didn't eat any decent food during the whole night yesterday and this morning, I just ordered it. Several local delicacies were delivered to the room by the waiter lady.

After entering the room, the lady waiter put the things down with a commercial smile of five plus signs, and before leaving, she repeatedly confirmed three times, "Do you have any other needs"...

After giving the tip, Riel sent the waiter out, and then locked the door behind him. He had to do something that was inconvenient for others to see.

... If you want to be crooked, face the wall for me!

Riel, who closed the door, glanced back at the room...

After all, you get what you pay for, and the guest room in front of you is three to five circles larger than Riel’s room on Earth. Riel can’t help but sigh, after being a hard worker for half of his life, he has money to enjoy the treatment of a grandpa after time travel Sure enough, although money can't solve all problems, it can at least solve most of them.

Well, after sighing, Riel took something that looked like a sandwich from the food basket on the table and stuffed it into his mouth, and then called out the system menu in his heart.

As if aware of what Riel was going to do, the shopping guide girl in the mall interface sent a super-sized sweet smile free of charge, "Welcome~"

"...Let's talk about being polite later."

Ruier has already confirmed that this shopping guide girl has a certain degree of intelligence and can have a basic conversation with him, so he doesn't care that what he sees is just a standing painting, but treats her as a half-real person.

"I got this now, if there is no accident, can I recharge here?"

While speaking, Riel reached out and knocked on the table, and immediately there was an opened, rusty treasure chest on the table.

Inside the treasure chest, which was probably a little bigger than the jewelry box, was covered with a layer of dazzling gold.

The items in half of the treasure chest are all high-grade pure gold!