"La la la..."
"I am a hunting expert..."
On a road in the forest, a dozen or so teenagers, looking to be sixteen or seventeen years old, were lined up in two rows, carrying seven huge beasts far larger than themselves on their heads, singing and smiling as they walked.
Just then.
Swish, swish, swish... The rustling sound coming from the bushes in front of the group caused the singing to stop abruptly.
The teenager walking in the front stopped, looking wary, and the others behind him stopped as well.
"Boss, there seems to be so movent ahead!"
Weston stepped forward, glanced at the bushes, and said, "Team Two, attack the bushes ahead!"
"Yes!"
Several teenagers behind him received the order and imdiately responded, raising their hands and aiming at the bushes.
Dang, dang, dang—
Four or five magic circles, so purple, so black, so white, lit up in front of these teenagers at the sa ti.
Inside the magic circles, stones, flas, water currents, and wind blades slowly took shape, ready to be launched.
"Wait, please don’t attack!"
A voice suddenly rang out from the bushes: "We an no harm, we’ll co out now!"
Hearing the voice, the teenagers beca even more vigilant.
Weston ’s lips curled up slightly, but he quickly suppressed it, and continued to shout loudly: "Co out wearing only your underwear, raise your hands, and squat down, or we’ll attack!"
There was silence in the bushes for two seconds.
The previous voice sounded again: "Um... can you let us wear an extra pair of pants?"
"Don’t worry, the climate on Tenrou Island is warm, you won’t freeze even if you wear one less pair of pants."
"But... but that’s too embarrassing..."
At this ti, Hugh, who was Weston’s right-hand man, ca up and suggested, "Boss, judging from the voice, they should be n. It would be too unpleasant to look at if they only wear underwear, why not agree?"
Weston pretended to ponder for two seconds before nodding: "Well... since even you said so, then okay."
Then he shouted towards the bushes: "I’ll give you ten seconds to co out!"
"Coming, coming..."
Soon, three sturdy young n with bare chests squatted on the ground, raised their hands high, and carefully ’moved’ out of the bushes.
The three seed to have experienced so kind of disaster, their faces were full of fatigue and weakness.
And a bit of shyness.
Their appearance overlapped with his mory by ninety-nine percent, it really was them!
He was originally thinking of taking them back first, and then eting with these three, but he didn’t expect to et them on the road. It seems their actions were quite fast... Weston felt certain in his heart, signaled everyone to be on guard, but his face remained unchanged: "Who are you people?"
"My na is Yuri, and the two behind are Precht and Warrod. We are rchants engaged in mariti trade."
"Yesterday, our ship encountered a shipwreck, and the fleet and cargo were all lost. Afterwards, we relied on driftwood to drift, and finally swam to this island with great difficulty..."
Shipwrecked mariti rchants?
Heh... their minds are working fast!
Weston raised an eyebrow, and imdiately guessed what these three were planning.
"Mariti rchants?"
"Yes... yes!"
"What kind of goods do you sell? Where do you get them from, and where do you sell them to?"
"Uh... this..."
Yuri’s smile instantly froze on his face.
He had previously co up with the idea of disguising himself as a shipwrecked sea rchant to sneak onto the island, gain the trust of the islanders, and then take the opportunity to steal the Tenrou Jade.
But he hadn’t thought about these details!
Fortunately, Precht behind him spoke up.
"We transport at, animal furs, and perfus from the inland to the coastal areas, and then transport seafood, flowers, and fruits from the coastal areas to the inland, making a profit from it."
"Hmm... so that’s how it is?"
"Yes, yes... that’s how it is..."
"Which of these goods you just ntioned has the biggest profit?"
"Seafood."
"What kind of seafood?"
"Sea fish, especially canned herring, is very popular in the inland."
Weston asked four or five more questions in a row, and Precht answered them all fluently, and his expression remained unchanged throughout the whole process, which made Yuri and Warrod next to him feel awed.
After a long while, Weston pretended to be convinced, and a warm smile reappeared on his face: "It’s a pity that you encountered a shipwreck. Why don’t you co back to the village with us first to settle down, and then find a way to go back later?"
"That’s really very grateful!"
Weston nodded, turned around and gave Hugh and Sword a look, and ordered, "You guys go back to the village first, I’ll stay here and take them."
"Understood."
"As for the three of you... go back and put on your clothes first."
"Ah... right."
Back in the bushes, Yuri and Warrod finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Precht, when did you beco so familiar with mariti trade?"
They had been friends with Precht for many years, and only knew that he was always silent, intelligent, and ticulous, but they never thought that he would be so familiar with comrce.
What the two didn’t know was that Precht’s heart was not calm at the mont.
"Idiot, can’t you tell that I was just saying it randomly?"
"My knowledge of comrce is about the sa as you two. Those words just now were completely made up based on intuition."
"Eh? Made up?"
Yuri and Warrod instantly turned into bean-eyed faces, looking completely dumbfounded.
"I couldn’t tell at all!"
"I thought you had already prepared a strategy, and were planning to break up after this trip and switch careers to do business..."
"That’s not right, then how are you so familiar with seafood, herring, and the like?"
Precht rolled his eyes again: "Are you confused from sleeping at sea? Isn’t that what we ate yesterday?!"
"In that kind of situation, I could only gamble."
"Gamble that this group of children who have lived on overseas islands for many years don’t know the outside market."
"Fortunately, I guessed right..."
A happy smile finally appeared on Yuri’s face: "Hahaha... you’re really sothing!"
"You’re still laughing!"
Precht put on his clothes and pushed Yuri’s hand away with dissatisfaction: "Look at the terrible idea you ca up with!"
"You said you wanted to disguise yourself as a mariti rchant, but you were exposed as soon as you were asked a question, and I had to save the day in the end..."
"This... uh... anyway, the first step of the plan was successful, don’t worry so much about it!"
Warrod interjected: "Did you guys see it just now?"
"Those children, who look much younger than us, were already able to hunt down seven large beasts, and they also ntioned a village..."
"If the children are like this, then what are the adults in the village like?"
"If we really want to take the Tenrou Jade later, we may have to fight these people. From this point of view, Yuri’s judgnt of ’infiltration’ may be correct."
This ti, Precht didn’t refute.
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