Episode 37 catch a thief
Episode 37 catch a thief
Theo and Xerath arrived at the store area on the 75th floor of the tower.
“Where are you going now, Theo?”
“First of all, I’m going to apply for a mid-level merchant promotion.”
“Are you already a mid-sized wandering merchant? I’m jealous.”
Xerath was inwardly surprised. To become a mid-sized wandering merchant, you need a sales amount of 1000 Top Coins, but considering Theo’s period of activity, this amount was almost impossible without special support.
“Um…what do you sell, Mr. Theo?”
Xerath asked cautiously. Depending on the traveling merchant, there were also traveling merchants who kept the products they handled a secret.
“I sell cherry tomatoes.”
“Huh? Cherry tomatoes?”
It didn’t seem like a lie.
“That’s right. I’ll show you later when I get a chance.”
While they were talking, Theo arrived at the Wandering Merchant Association branch and requested a promotion to a mid-sized Wandering Merchant.
“Theo, from now on, you have become a mid-sized wandering merchant.”
The promotion to a mid-sized wandering merchant was processed immediately because there were no special conditions other than the sales amount.
“Here is your mid-sized wandering merchant license.”
An employee of the branch of the Wandering Merchant Association gave Theo a rectangular license made of blue metal. With that, Theo was promoted to a mid-sized wandering merchant.
“Fuhuhuhu. Now, I’m a mid-sized wandering merchant!”
Now that he has nothing to worry about with Sejun over the grower, Theo’s steps become lighter.
“Congratulations. Theo.”
“Thank you.”
Xerath congratulated Theo as he came out of the Wandering Merchants’ Association branch.
“Where is your next destination?”
“Now I have to go to the general store.”
Theo received two cast iron pots, a saw blade, and a saw from the general store. I purchased a needle.
“A cast iron pot costs 1 top coin. Top 0.9 top coins. Thread and needles cost 0.5 top coins, a total of 2.4 top coins.”
Xerath’s eyes lit up next to him at the price the general store owner called.
‘If I bargain, I get 2 top coins. You can even cut the price down to coins.’
It was Xerath who was thinking of helping Theo and gaining more trust.
At that time ,
“I want you to lower the price!”
Theo started lowering the price.
“Hmm… Then, I’ll give it to you at 2.2 Top Coins.”
At the first lowering, he was like a bully. I saw it, but I thought they weren’t being ripped off.
But,
“Please charge me more!”
“Customers, we have to make a living too. That’s difficult.”
When Theo used the second cut,
he said, ‘Hohoho, you can’t just ask for a price cut so recklessly and they’ll lower the price…’
Xeras snorted and shook his head.
At that time
, “I understand. Let’s go, Xeras.”
Theo answered and quickly turned around and started to leave.
“Ah! Sir, why are you so impatient? I lost. “I’ll give it to you for 2 top coins.”
“…?!”
Xerath was very surprised by the general store owner’s words.
Without any fancy words or the five logics that could lower the price he found by quickly examining the items, Theo left with only two. In short, he created the result he had in mind.
But that wasn’t the end.
“1.8 Top Coin. Otherwise, I’ll just leave.”
When Theo slashed the price with the third and final cut, he said,
‘They’re going to lower the price further?!’
Xerath was astonished at Theo’s ignorance. That’s impossible!
But
“Whew. I understand.”
The deal was made as if mocking Xerath’s thoughts.
‘This can’t be right…’
Xerath completely lost confidence in his bargaining skills. He even received education from his own family… but he can’t be compared to Theo. I could feel the gap that was not there.
I just asked him to reduce the price three times, but Xerath was even in awe of Theo’s bargaining skills.
‘If he had that level of bargaining skills, he could have made a lot of money without doing anything illegal.’
Xerath completely dispelled his doubts about Theo.
“Theo, I will leave. “You may encounter wolves again next time, so be careful.”
“I understand! Bye.”
Theo said hello to Xerath and went to the blacksmith shop to get equipment.
But
“I don’t have anything I want to catch today.”
There was no equipment to hold Theo’s hand.
“I guess I should just go.”
Theo moved to the 99th floor.
Xerath broke up with Theo and returned to the Secret Service.
And submitted a report to the director.
[The reason why wandering merchant Theo’s sales soared: The wandering merchant Theo is a genius at bargaining.]
It was Xerath who completely misunderstood Theo.
***
Sejun went down to the cave and slept after seeing the poisonous bee queen, who had returned with a bloated stomach, sucking honey from the hole and sleeping.
The next morning.
Sejun woke up a little early and went up to the ground to check if the poisonous bee queen was okay, but the poisonous bee queen had disappeared again.
Instead, there was a small beehive at the top of the rock where the rope was tied. The poisonous bee queen has finally settled down and is preparing to lay eggs.
At that time
, cooooooong.
Kueng!
The mother Crimson Giant Bear and her cub came together.
The bear
cub rolled down the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s shoulders like it was going down a slide.
Haha, haha. Haha.
The mother Crimson Giant Bear licked the cub a few times as if washing it.
Kueng! Kueng!
It was an amazing scene to see the powerful bear cub being swayed around by the tongue of its mother, the Crimson Giant Bear.
When Sejun was looking at the two like that,
he cried out.
After washing her cub, the mother Crimson Giant Bear looked at Sejun, said something, and went out on patrol. There was no translation for Eileen, but I felt like I knew what she meant.
“I guess I’ll have to catch a lot of crayfish today too.”
For some reason, it seemed like Mom Crimson Giant Bear would show up at lunchtime again today.
“Because Kueng makes the honey you eat here. You must not eat this.”
Sejun warned the bear cub in advance that he might touch the honey bee queen’s newly established bee hive.
Kueng! Kueng!
The bear cub nodded strongly. all right! I will protect you!
Sejun came down to the cave, had breakfast with the rabbits, and started his day.
My agility went up, and farming became easy to master. And when other crops are finished harvesting, the only thing left to harvest are cherry tomatoes.
Sejun easily finished everything in two hours and went to the pond.
“Is Black Rabbit ready?”
Bye!
with a splash.
The black rabbit answered Sejun’s question and dived into the pond, taking care of the piranhas blocking his view first.
Boop! Boop! Boop!
Every time the black rabbit’s hammer swung, piranhas jumped out of the pond.
Sejun quickly tied the piranha with a rope and made two piranha rings to give to the bear cub.
And when the black rabbit came out of the pond, Sejun began hunting crayfish in earnest.
There are about 40 crayfish in the pond. For some reason, those who entered the pond once did not attempt to go out again.
Sejun went into the water and caught crayfish one by one with his hands. Yesterday, I stabbed and killed them all without thinking, but if I catch them this way, I can catch them without calling in other piranha or crayfish.
“We can’t let the pond water get polluted.”
Sejun couldn’t drink water or wash his face until morning because crayfish slaughtered piranhas yesterday and the pond water was contaminated. I needed a way to purify water.
So Sejun picked up a crayfish from the pond while thinking of a way to purify water.
And while Sejun was picking up the crayfish like that,
pop!
The black rabbit cut into the crayfish’s stomach with Sejun’s dagger and drained the blood.
Then
I was hooked.
The body and hammer of the black rabbit that stabbed the crayfish’s stomach glowed black. Usually when you level up you just see a bright light, but this time it was a little different.
There was no change in the black rabbit’s body, but the hammer became slightly larger and the end of the handle became sharp like an awl.
It looked different from a normal level up.
Bye!
A black rabbit came into the pond majestically holding a hammer.
“Why all of a sudden?”
Bye!
The black rabbit gave a thumbs up while looking at Sejun. Now I handle it!
Wow!
When the black rabbit hit the crayfish’s head hard, the crayfish stopped moving. The crayfish fainted from the hammer blow of the black rabbit, which had become stronger by leveling up.
Boop! Boop!
The black rabbit dragged the stunned crayfish out of the pond.
And
poof.
I stabbed the crayfish in the chest with the pointed handle of the hammer.
Bye?
The black rabbit looked at Sejun arrogantly, minus the crayfish blood. Did you see it?
“Okay. I’ll leave the crayfish to you now.”
Sejun, who had less work to do due to the growth of the black rabbit, concentrated on grilling crayfish.
And
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
As lunch time approached, mother Crimson Giant Bear returned to Sejun’s cave, as expected.
Munching.
As expected, mother Crimson Giant Bear put 20 grilled crayfish in one mouth.
This time, the family saved food separately, so there was no need to go down to the cave again.
After having such a delicious lunch,
he said, “Please ask me if I can dig up some ground over there.”
Sejun asked Eileen to translate with his mother Crimson Giant Bear.
Sejun had no hesitation since he was treated to a delicious lunch and had a reason to ask for work.
I was originally going to ask for it the last time I served steamed corn, but Eileen was sleeping at that time.
[The tower manager asks Crimson Giant Bear where to dig.]
Okay!
“here.”
Sejun pointed to the ground about 500 meters away from the cave. For fear of damaging the cave, we decided to go somewhere far away.
Thump, thump.
Mother Crimson Giant Bear walked with long strides and quickly arrived at the place indicated by Sejun.
And
coo! coo!
I just put my front paws on the ground a few times and moved them, and the ground turned over, and the black dirt underneath came up to the ground. The excavator also completed work that would have taken several hours in one go.
Thanks to his mother Crimson Giant Bear, Sejun turned over about 1,000 pyeong of land in one go.
Ugh.
Mother Crimson Giant Bear went out on patrol again, and Sejun spent the afternoon planting 3,000 corn and 1,000 cherry tomatoes with the rabbits on 1,000 pyeong of land.
And
shoot.
When the rabbits worked hard to water the place where the seeds were planted and watered almost all of the water, it started dripping
.
The water coming from the water stopper was cut off.
“Huh? What is it? Why isn’t there any water?”
Sejun, who thought infinite water came out of the water aperture, asked.
Beep.
The yummy rabbit shook his head. I ran out of water today.
I didn’t know until now because I didn’t have to use it all, but White Rabbit’s water aperture item had a limited amount of water that could be used per day. I felt like I needed to conserve water in the future.
Sejun covered the watered field as much as possible with the remaining pea leaves and went to sleep.
But that night, the grass thief struck again.
***
“Mean meow meow.”
As Sejun’s cave got closer, Theo, who was in a good mood, hummed and walked quickly.
Then
munching.
I heard the sound of something chewing somewhere.
“What?”
When I looked towards the place where the sound came from, I saw a Minotaur eating grass.
“Huh? Aren’t those the pie leaves that Park Se-jun grows?”
Theo recognized the pie leaves as soon as he saw them. I knew it well because I cut it myself.
“Where did you get that from?”
Theo approached the Minotaur and asked.
Hmm?
The Minotaur answered after confirming that the other person was a wandering merchant. I picked it up from the ground.
“That can’t be possible! That’s Park Se-jun’s favorite grass! Park Se-jun uses that grass as a bowl, to make rope, and to wipe his butt! You stole Park Se-jun’s grass!”
Theo caught Woo Cheon-sam, the grass thief.
