I have an Apocalypse City

Chapter 240 - 240: Enemy?

Chapter 240: Chapter 240: Enemy?

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Looking at the medicinial field in front of him, Canaan was enormously surprised. He could never have imagined that deep within this forest was a field cultivated by the Kateru Clan.

“It’s simply unbelievable. Since when did the Kantulu Clan learn to grow herbs? They’re infamous for being brutes whose heads are only full of muscle!” Canaan exclaimed in surprise.

Seeing Canaan appear, Song Jian felt a twinge of tension in his heart. He was the first to discover this field of medicinal herbs, but he couldn’t stop Canaan from gathering them, after all they were on the same team now.

“Human, 1 give you three thousand Doomsday Coins, and the rest of these medicinal herbs belong to me, okay?” Canaan shouted loudly.

Song Jian looked up at Canaan, never expecting this green-skinned little dwarf to be so generous. Even if Canaan was competing with him for the herbs now, Song Jian couldn’t find anything to complain about.

“Five thousand!” Song Jian shouted back.

“Deal!” Canaan responded immediately.

Song Jian glanced regretfully at the remaining three or four plots of herbs. If he could collect them all, he could advance another level in his Medicine Gathering skill. However, if he sold them, he wouldn’t be able to get five thousand Doomsday Coins for them.

After trading five thousand Doomsday Coins, Song Jian stood to one side, curious to see how Canaan would go about gathering the herbs.

The goblin merchant Canaan, after completing the trade, first walked up to each plot of herbs for a close inspection. Then, he took out two intelligent machines that were about as tall as him.

These intelligent machines looked like eight-legged spiders, with six legs supporting their bodies. Two mechanical claws were used to harvest the herbs, and each time a plant was dug up, it was placed inside their elliptical bodies, which were obviously also storage devices.

Their gathering speed was extremely fast, even more than twice as fast as Song Jian using his bamboo spade, thanks to the various tools on the mechanical claws. In just over half an hour, they had finished gathering all the remaining herbs.

“How about it? These are herb gathering robots, equipped with a level eight Medicine Gathering skill, suitable for any terrain. Even if the herbs are growing on a cliff face, they can collect them.” Canaan bragged, “It only costs ten thousand Doomsday Coins each, and if you need it, 1 can give you a discount of 99.9%!”

“Forget it, I can’t afford it!” Song Jian shook his head and said.

“Hmm, these herbs can be used to make about a hundred bottles of potions. Each bottle of potion can be sold for between three hundred to five hundred Doomsday Coins. I should be able to make about twenty thousand Doomsday Coins this time…” Canaan took out a calculator, punched some numbers and then said in a low voice.

“Potions are so profitable?” Song Jian’s heart stirred and he quickly asked.

Canaan put away the calculator, looked at Song Jian, and said quizzically: “Of course, potions are consumables. As long as there is fighting, they will be needed. They sell well, and due to the low success rate of potion-making, they have to be sold at a high price or else we wouldn’t make any profit.”

Song Jian nodded, considering the idea of opening a shop specializing in the sale of potions in the future. Wouldn’t it be easy to earn Doomsday Coins that way!

Having finished gathering the herbs, Song Jian and Canaan left the forest and headed towards the passage they had entered through the day before. Canaan, after resting for a few hours, was full of energy, and though Song Jian hadn’t rested, he didn’t feel tired as long as his Mental Strength hadn’t been fully consumed in the game.

Standing in front of the passage, the stone doors were still closed. Canaan carefully sketched the symbols of the ruins onto the parchment. Song Jian, feeling curious, asked: “Didn’t you say this place moves every month and the maze never repeats itself? So what’s the point of drawing this map?”

“Obviously, to sell it!” Canaan glanced at Song Jian and said, “The Katlu Ruins exist for a month, and it only takes us two or three days to enter. With the remaining time, we can sell the map to others. Each person can only use the prayer altar once, and after we have used it, others can continue to use it.”

“You really are cut out to be a merchant!” Song Jian sighed. It seemed this green-skinned dwarf had truly ingrained the art of making money into his blood and bones.

“Of course, I am a goblin merchant, and my goal is to become a great space-traveling merchant, selling items on various planets all across the universe!” The goblin merchant Canaan said excitedly.

“What a great ambition!” Song Jian replied, unsure whether the concept of cosmic planets really existed in this game, and whether there were other planets. For now, he was still stuck in his own city, and had no conception of cosmic planets.

While they chatted, they waited for the stone doors of the passage to open. In no time, the stone doors let out a rumbling sound and slowly began to slide apart.

“It’s truly a marvel of engineering. The Kantulu people from over a thousand years ago were able to develop such mechanisms. This stone door, operating without anyone controlling it, has been running for more than a thousand years. It’s truly astonishing.” As Canaan watched the door slowly slide open, his eyes were filled with admiration.

Soon, the stone gate opened, revealing the glowing passage inside.

“I really don’t want to enter this smelly passage again.” Canaan said as he drew a filter onto his face and stepped into the passage.

As the foul smell from the passage slowly wafted out, Song Jian frowned slightly, also put a filter over his mouth and nose, followed Canaan into the passage.

Having only walked about ten meters, a “boom” sounded from behind them; the stone door closed. The door only opened twice a day and each time lasted only three minutes. The fact that the two of them found this place was pure luck.

“We have explored more than half of the Kantelu Maze. We should be able to find the real Katlu Ruins today!” Holding the parchment in his hand, Canaan whispered.

Just then, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps from ahead, and both Song Jian and Canaan simultaneously stopped and looked at each other, both having a bad feeling.

“Hey, isn’t this our green-skinned dwarf? The lesson 1 gave you last time wasn’t enough, huh? You dare to venture into the Kantelu Maze again. Did you really think the words I said last time were just empty threats?” A haughty voice rang out from the opposite side.

Soon, a figure appeared before Song Jian.

A girl clad in crimson armor, wielding a flame-burning war axe, followed by two beasts half a person tall, appeared in front of the two.

“Jierna, don’t push things too far! This is the site of the Kantulu Clan. If you can come here, so can l!” Canaan argued loudly, hopping up and down with frustration.

“It seems that you really want to fight with me over this!” A trace of murderous intent appeared on Jierna’s delicate face. She shouted, “Red-tailed Beasts, attack!”

Roar-

The two beasts behind Jierna roared into the sky and charged at Canaan.