Chapter 118 Heading to the Southern Region
In the majestic city, Xiao Yun and Xiao Yixian were walking on the street. In front of them, Zi Yan was jumping up and down, eating some street food from time to time.
"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yixian sister, this is delicious too." Zi Yan got a handful of barbecued meat from somewhere, with fiery red powder particles on it. I wonder if it is the "high-tech" of the Douqi Continent.
"Have you paid?" Facing the skewers of meat handed over, Xiao Yun first gave it to Xiao Yixian on the side, and then to himself.
He asked this question not because he didn't believe Zi Yan, but because along the way, more than five vendors had caught up with them and asked them for money.
"Of course! Humph! I just forgot before." Zi Yan's mouth was full of oil and she rolled her eyes cutely.
After spending some time with Zi Yan, Xiao Yun found a hotel that seemed crowded, ordered some food, and the three of them sat in a private room and waited.
"Bang Bang!" There was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
"Sir, this is the meal you ordered." A waiter came in with a huge plate, and after placing the dishes on it one by one, he was ready to turn around and leave.
"Wait." Xiao Yun called the waiter, and wiped his palm on the ring, and a bag of gold coins appeared in his hand, and he threw it to him casually.
"Tell us where this area is. Well said, this bag of gold coins belongs to you."
After taking the bag of gold coins, the waiter weighed it, a brilliant smile appeared on his face, and he said respectfully: "Thank you, sir, this is Lihuo City, located in the southwest of Zhongzhou. There are many cities like Lihuo City within a thousand miles, but Lihuo City is the most prosperous one."
"Our cities here are all under the management of Fenyan Valley. Do you know Fenyan Valley? It is one of the two most powerful forces in our Western Region..."
In order to get this bag of gold coins, the waiter also put in a lot of thought, from small things like interesting things on the streets to big things like the top forces in Zhongzhou, as long as he knew, he told them all, and it took him ten minutes.
"Sir, that's all I know." After a moment, the waiter, who was about to tell Xiao Yun about peeping at a woman bathing, was looking at Xiao Yun expectantly.
"Well, good, this bag of gold coins is yours." Xiao Yun waved his hand and asked him to leave. Then he turned his head and looked at the two of them, with a look of surprise on his face.
While he was listening to the waiter, Xiao Yixian and the other two had already eaten all the food on the table, and most of it went into Zi Yan's stomach.
"Do you want to order more?" Xiao Yixian saw Xiao Yun's expression, covered her mouth and chuckled a few times, then asked.
"No need." Xiao Yun shook his head helplessly. In fact, for a strong man of his level, eating is just for the sake of appetite. If he really relies on the energy in the food to fill his stomach, then every meal must be calculated by tons.
"Let's go. It's good to know the news about Lihuo City. Let's go to the Cartography Pavilion mentioned by the waiter and buy a map of Zhongzhou."
Xiao Yun stood up, paid the money, and walked out of the hotel with the two girls. Following the route indicated by the waiter, the three of them slowly walked through several streets, turned around for a while, and then stopped to look at the luxurious and majestic pavilion in front of them.
As soon as Xiao Yun stepped into the shop, before he could speak, a plump maid in revealing clothes came up to him. She twisted her body constantly, attracting the hot gazes of others.
She didn't care at all when being looked at like this, but twisted her body even more violently.
"Welcome, my three lords. Our Cartography Pavilion is the best map shop in the entire Lihuo City, with the most maps. What kind of maps do you need?" As soon as the maid came up, she bowed 90 degrees, and her beauty was exposed.
"Yah!" Before Xiao Yun had time to look carefully, she felt a sharp pain in her waist. She turned her head and saw that the culprit was the Little Doctor Fairy.
Her beautiful eyes widened slightly, staring at Xiao Yun fiercely, as if saying: "You're dead if you look again!"
"Ahem." Xiao Yun turned his head quickly and coughed lightly a few times, saying in a flat tone: "Does your cartograph studio have a map of the entire Zhongzhou?"
"I'm sorry, sir, we don't have this kind of map in our store." Hearing Xiao Yun's words, the maid bowed slightly to apologize, and then whispered: "Although we don't have the entire Zhongzhou, we still have the map of the southwest region. Do you need it, sir?"
"Yes." Xiao Yun nodded slightly, and said: "Give me the most detailed map in your store."
After hearing what Xiao Yun said, the maid smiled. The price of the map is not cheap, let alone the most detailed one. It takes a lot of time and manpower to make such a map.
"Sir, please wait a moment." The maid said, and then turned and walked towards the counter. After a while, she came over with a white scroll in her hands.
"Sir, this is the most detailed map scroll in our store."
Xiao Yun took the map from the maid, put it on the wooden table beside him, and slowly spread it out. He saw that the map was crisscrossed with lines, and hundreds of cities were marked on it, as well as various mountains and rivers, some of which were annotated in small red characters.
"I didn't expect that the Western Region of Zhongzhou alone is so vast and worthy of being the center of the continent." Xiao Yixian also came over and looked at the densely packed cities above, and exclaimed.
"That's why there are space wormholes. Otherwise, relying on human power alone, even a Douhuang strongman would find it difficult to fly out of a region." Xiao Yun smiled. Douhuang strongmen can definitely fly out of a region if they want to, but flying by themselves takes a long time, and the dangers on the road are enough to make them give up this idea.
Douqi Continent is not a peaceful continent. It believes in the law of the jungle. Although Zhongzhou is much better than the Black Horn Region, it is only limited to the city. In the wilderness, there are Black Horn Regions everywhere.
It was for this reason that Xiao Yun did not use the maps of Yao Lao and Yao Tianhuo. Although they both had detailed maps of Zhongzhou, they were too old. Maybe today two Dou Zun had a fight, and a mountain or a city would disappear. Apart from the general direction, they had no other reference value.
"Not bad!" After looking at it carefully for a while, Xiao Yun nodded with satisfaction. He had already learned the specific location of Lihuo City from the map. It was a southern city in the Western Region. It was not far from the Southern Region where Lixing Meteorite Pavilion was located. He only needed to take the space wormhole again to reach the Southern Region.
"This map is indeed very detailed. How much is it? I'll buy it."
"Sir, this map is not expensive. It's only 100,000 gold coins." The maid beside him said with a smile.
"100,000 gold coins?" Xiao Yun nodded and took out a black crystal card from his ring and handed it to the maid.
If this price was placed in the Northwest Continent, the whole store would definitely be smashed by others, but in Zhongzhou where a meal costs hundreds of gold coins, it doesn't seem so expensive.
"Thank you, sir!" The maid took the black crystal card with a smile, and as if she was afraid that Xiao Yun would regret it, she quickly walked to the counter and swiped it with an object similar to a POS machine.
After paying, Xiao Yun and the other two left the Cartography Pavilion directly.
"It would be nice if everyone who comes to buy a map is as generous as him." The maid smiled as she watched the three people leave. Maps, apart from the money required at the beginning, are pure profit. Now, if she sells a map worth 100,000 gold coins, she can also get a 10% commission.
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After leaving the Cartography Pavilion, Xiao Yun did not stop and returned to the Black Stone Square.
"How many people? Where are you going? Do you need a spaceship?" On the chair, a middle-aged man who looked like a manager did not even raise his head, but just took a pen and paper to write something down.
"If you don't use the spaceship, it's 50,000 gold coins per person. If you need it, add 10,000 more."
Hearing this, Xiao Yun took out the black crystal card from his ring again, put it on the wooden table, and said calmly: "Three people, Southern Region, no need."
"Hmm?" The middle-aged man heard Xiao Yun's answer, raised his head, looked at the three people in front of him, and finally locked his eyes on Zi Yan.
"Old man, what are you looking at?" Seeing the middle-aged man staring at her, Zi Yan's face sank, and a trace of domineering aura emanated from her.
Xiao Yun and Xiao Yixian also looked at each other with some hostility, and the latter even raised his palm, ready to send out poisonous fighting spirit at any time.
"Ahem, there is a misunderstanding." A drop of cold sweat fell down. The middle-aged man did not expect the three people to react so strongly, and he waved his hands quickly. He was just a fighting spirit, and the three people in front of him did not need to squeeze the spaceship, which meant that they had their own. Such a big shot was not something he could offend.
"I was just looking at the height of this lady." The middle-aged man stood up and took out a piece of paper from the side. It said 'Free for those under 1.2 meters, half price for those between 1.2 and 1.5 meters.'
"I think this lady should be around 1.4 meters, so it should be half price."
"Hahaha!" Xiao Yun laughed loudly when he heard this, and the little doctor couldn't help but cover the corner of his mouth.
"Stinky Xiao Yun! What are you laughing at!" Zi Yan was furious. She hated it the most when others talked about this, and kicked Xiao Yun's calf fiercely.
"Hiss!" After being kicked, Xiao Yun was obviously much more restrained and stopped laughing. "Swipe the card, swipe the card, don't charge her half the price!"
After paying, Xiao Yun pulled the depressed Zi Yan with one hand and walked onto the black stone platform.
"Humph! Laugh! After a while! I will grow up! Bigger than you!" Seeing Xiao Yun's half-smile, Zi Yan kicked him hard again. Her desire to grow up reached its peak. She wished she could turn back into an ancient dragon and crush Xiao Yun with her butt.
Then, she took out the jade bottle containing the elixir from the ring, tilted her head back, poured all the elixir into her mouth, and chewed it hard. Then
the three of them stepped into the space wormhole together, summoned the space ship, and headed towards the southern region of Zhongzhou.