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"But why, why do people treat their kind so cruelly?" Ida didn't understand.
"Because they love themselves more than others." Li Yi replied, shook his head.
"People often burst out with unparalleled power in desperate situations. I hope Anderlu can survive until I go back," Li Yi was thinking about Anderlu. It seems that his family also has power in Sky Academy. He actually forced him to drop out of school and wanted to kill him completely outside the college. It is more powerful than Dimantedis. This is a way to force people to a dead end, which can easily work for ordinary people. However, Anderlu is not an ordinary person. He must have thought of a backup plan before entering the college, so there is no need to worry about him.
Two days later, the White Rose arrived at Daxman Harbor, and Ida was quietly sent away by Li Yi. This was a harbor that would not be frozen even in the severe winter. The powerful current washed away the black stone slope platform and eroded the threads like annual rings. Even if you scoop a glass of water from the sea, it would completely freeze for a few minutes, and there was no thin ice in the sea water.
Arrived in the morning and had to be fully fed before evening. As usual, two old men watched the boat. Michelle took an ugly face and a man with a hat to buy food and water. The bread here is very distinctive. You can often see long queues in the corners of the street to buy a baguette. The taste of the bread is related to the time of roasting. After a long time of roasting, it will be hard like a newspaper roll. It is very tough, but the aroma is more intense. The roasting time is short, and it is soft and delicious, with a faint fragrance. It is not difficult to buy food. The key is that fruits in the north are difficult to buy. The cold-resistant citrus are small and astringent, so you can only buy more pickled cabbage and pickled peppers.
Li Yi wanted to get off the boat and saw him. He glanced at Blas, smiled, and got off the boat alone. Blas was shocked and thought that Li Yi was going to do it outside, so he had to stay on the boat.
"Hmph. The idiot is so scared. Now is not a good time to kill him." Li Yi couldn't help laughing. He entered Daxman, the harbor covered with ice and snow.
Around Daxman Harbor is a seaside town. It is neither a transportation hub for the mainland nor an important fishery gathering place. However, because explorers who flock to the ice circle to hunt gold every winter are particularly prosperous. The streets and the streets are covered with thick ice covers, and local residents like to pour seawater on the houses. In the temperature of more than 50 degrees below zero, the seawater freezes, so that the surface of the houses forms a wax-like ice shell, which not only can be kept in heat, but also is very beautiful. Various types of ice sculptures can often be seen at the intersection of the streets. Some ordinary people also make ice sculptures for explorers to make a living. Their own sculptures stand on the streets of Daxman. It has to be said that this is a kind of glory. Daxman local explorers are brave, like to drink and gambling. There are many people who fight with each other when they are disagreeing.
Li Yi has no special hobbies. Unlike most sailors, who stayed in the sea for a long time, the first thing he did was to find a bar to eat and drink well. Finally, he found a woman to vent her long-standing desire and spend all his money.
He quietly walked from the harbor to the center of Daxman, bought a newspaper, and then found a coffee shop to enjoy his breakfast. Next to him was an old man with a gray-white beard, with a red face and a circle of frostbite around his fat ears. He kept taking out a flat wine pot to drink whiskey. The exhaled heat melted the ice residue on his beard.
Li Yi was a little disgusted. The smell of alcohol made him dizzy. So far, he had only tasted cider and knew the soft fermented smell, with sunlight and water vapor inside. The aging of whiskey was obviously too irritating to him. He frowned and moved away and sat somewhere else.
"Hey, boy! Do you think I'm old and dirty?" The old man was very unhappy, with a little translucent red nose like a cherry on a cake.
"Of course not, you misunderstood," Li Yi waved his hand and finally got rid of the pungent smell of alcohol. "I just don't drink, maybe I'm allergic to alcohol!"
"Haha, you, a little girl, actually said that you don't drink. Is a man still a man if you don't drink?" The old man laughed, staring at Li Yi as if he had discovered some strange species. Everyone around him turned his head to look at him, his eyes full of mockery.
"It's such a strange custom." Li Yi ignored them. Is it a man who didn't say it from others? To be honest, Li Yi is not proud of his gender or what, it's meaningless.
Seeing this young man wearing a mask surprisingly calm, not at all like a local style, the old man had a topic again, "Hey, boy, where did you come from?"
"I'm coming from afar." Li Yi nodded and drank a glass of milk.
"I'm just saying that foreigners are all sissy! They don't even drink wine! When we come to our north, they don't dare to burp a single fart!" The old man raised the wine pot in his hand, feeling an inexplicable sense of pride, and the people around him agreed.
"The regions discriminate against each other by customs. Southerners believe that northerners are barbaric and uneducated, while northerners believe that roughness and heroism are the manifestation of men. Humans will argue over some boring things and show their superiority that does not exist at all." Li Yi was bored and stood up and prepared to leave here.
But the old man didn't let him go. The guy blocked the door and said, "Hey, boy, we Daxman has a custom. If you have a fancy to something from the other party, you either rob it or use the method of betting on wine. This leather jacket on your body looks good, I want it!"
"Haha," Li Yi was amused. He always robbed others. This time someone actually wanted to rob him. However, he only brought Feld out. Alger didn't like the outdoors during the day. Isabella was afraid of the cold and hid in the house. Now he had a fight with others.
"You can't run away. So many people are witnessing it. I'm not afraid of you even if you sue the Explorer Court!" The old man looked very cunning. His gray eyes stared at the lynx fur robe on Li Yi. Although there was no extra greed, he also showed a very fond expression. The Explorer Court was established here by Daxman's administrator, which targeted the Explorer's restrictive organization to prevent the excessive courage and ruthlessness of the Explorer from causing unnecessary casualties to the town.
"So, I have only two choices, either, if I win, go out, or lose all the money?" Li Yi finished the last little bread and continued: "Drinking alcohol actually tests the amount that willpower can support under the anesthesia of alcohol. Although I don't like drinking, it does not mean that I am weak in will. I bet with you that this leather robe was peeled off from a golden primary spirit, without any flaws or scars, and it is extremely complete. What are you betting on me?"
"Let me see," the old man walked up with his eyes widened, and looked at it carefully for a long time. "It is indeed the same as what you said. It is such a good baby. Since your piece is a baby, I will be too useless to fool you with some insignificant little things. Look at this, can you be worthy of betting against you?"
He took out a small box and opened it. There was a drop of shiny silver liquid inside, opaque, like mercury. Li Yi took it and weighed it, thinking to himself: "A drop of this small size. It weighs three or four pounds. It looks like a precious gold-grade metal called heavy silver. If it is heavy silver, it would be worth the same as this lynx leather robe. However, I have seen heavy silver in Hector's workshop, and it seems to be a slight difference from this liquid metal. Is it fake?"
At this time, he saw Feld's face full of excitement and looked at him hard. Li Yi immediately understood it. He closed the lid and asked, "Is this gold-level metal heavy silver? If so, he can bet with me."
"Good eyesight, since you agree, then you can testify and bring whiskey!" The old man was overjoyed. He sat opposite Li Yi. Although it was a cafe, there were quite a lot of wine. Two identical cups were placed in front of them. Everyone around bets, ranging from five or six spirit crystals, most of them were green spirit crystals.
Li Yi was very casual. Feld was so excited that he didn't know what to do. Maybe this drop of metal was really a good thing. After drinking five cups, he obviously felt that alcohol was anesthesia in his brain. However, after experiencing the test of Knatter's miracle, this level of anesthesia could not affect his will. He was extremely sober, but his body was a little uncontrollable.
After the tenth time of drinking, the old man was obviously unable to do it. The onlookers exclaimed from time to time. Usually, the winner was obvious when the winner was seven or eight cups. I didn't expect the old man to drink so well. However, what surprised them even more was that the stranger drank cups in an extremely calm posture, just like a machine. The movements of the first and ten cups were exactly the same. It seemed that no amount of wine could affect him. He still had a calm expression, and the old man had already started murmuring, his face flushed, and he laughed out inexplicably, or pouted his lips and made a loud burp.
"The eleventh cup!" The people around him shouted rhythmically, and the shouting attracted more people to watch.
"Magic boy! Come on!" "Old man, drink quickly, your leather robe is gone!"
Both sides had their own opinions, and the scene was rioting, and even Michelle was attracted. Seeing that it was Li Yi, the expression on her face was extremely exciting. She shook her head and left.
The old man's eyes were wide open, as if he was about to squeeze his eyeballs out of his eye sockets. His right hand was nervously stroking his dirty sheepskin jacket, and a hen cried out in his throat. He held the thirteenth cup, squeezed his face into a ball, raised his head, swallowed hard, and suddenly he felt dizzy, and felt a sense of relief in his heart, "Damn, I must die on thirteenth..."
Li Yi shrugged his shoulders habitually and drank the fourteenth cup. Looking at the unconscious old man who slowly fell on the ground, he said, "Sorry, I accept this heavy silver with a smile. Remember not to bet on people you don't know in the future."
The people around him cheered, and Li Yi became a hero all of a sudden. An explorer made his drinking look like an ice sculpture in front of the coffee shop. The slogan below was: Fourteen cups win--Don't underestimate foreigners.
"Okay, Feld, tell me what this is?" Li Yi asked.
"Boss, even if you have a good alcohol tolerance, drinking so much will have an impact on your body. Alcoholism..." Feld murmured.
Li Yi knew Feld as he knew himself. He understood that every time Feld had any abnormal behavior, he wanted to hide something, so he said, "You are sick again. This drop of metal must be of great use to you, right? I'll just give it to Alger to see if you can come from him."
"Boss! You can't do this. You must be drunk. This is actually liquid krypton. If I can eat it, I can break through the primary green level..." Feld concealed and scrambled.
"Hmph, the price of letting you break through to the middle level of green must be much lower than this drop of metal, otherwise you will ask me openly," Li Yi touched his hot forehead, and he couldn't hold on anymore, "Tell me, what is the function of liquid krypton?"
"Liquid krypton is a precious neutralizing agent that can allow different types of red-grade metals to merge with each other. It is one of the perfect materials for the ancient manufacturing of top spiritual tools. It is indeed a pity to just let me break through to the middle level. However, the manufacturing methods and materials of ancient spiritual tools are now lost, so, so..." Feld hesitated for a while and still said it.
"Oh, please, you can use it to break through," Li Yi threw the box to Feld. "It is better to directly improve your strength instead of looking forward to the ancient spiritual tools that are out of reach."
"Okay! You're so reasonable, boss!" Feld agreed happily, and swallowed the drop of metal.
The dizziness became more and more serious, and accompanied by extremely uncomfortable nausea, Li Yi felt a huge burden on his body. He just wanted to find a place to sleep, so he forced himself to buy a baguette. After eating, he found himself walking to a narrow alley. Feild didn't know where he ran. I guess this guy was too happy and lost in the complex alley.
"I want to have a sleep, I'm so dizzy," Li Yi stumbled and walked along the wall. He snorted out the smell of alcohol, his body became hot and hot. He squatted down and applied ice and snow to his face before he woke up slightly.
There is a bronze medal with severe rust at the entrance of the alley, which says: Martin District, this is a place where gypsy gather.
The Gypsy people always make a living by playing tricks and playing magic tricks. Even children would beg along the street with cages, directing the mice to dance and somersaults, winning the laughter of those rich children and earning a few coins. Their reputation is not good. Many people think that they steal property, even children, and some fools think that they are the spokespersons of the devil on earth. Those tricks are learned from the devil to bewitch people's hearts, dislike them, mock them, and even discriminate and beat them. There are regulations against the Gypsy people in the law.
Just when Li Yi couldn't support him, a gypsy girl found him, "Sir, what's wrong with you?" she asked.
Li Yi fell to the ground without saying a word, and he fell asleep. The girl had beautiful eyelashes and bright eyes. Her skin showed a healthy wheat color, lively and soft, with a pottery-like luster. Her slender waist was narrower than some noble girls with waistbands. With a full grip, she was like a beautiful goblet.
Chapter completed!