Chapter 857

Silver Coin? Of course he knew him. Back then, Silver Coin had even given him a silver coin, and it seemed everyone had one. When Silver Coin gave it to him, he said: "Holding this silver coin, you can mobilize resources within the Silver Commerce Society up to 100,000 magic crystals and mobilize the full power of a city branch. Although you might not use it, everyone has one. Take it as a token."

So Xiao Gu nodded.

Yin Ding said, "That is great! I am Yin Ding, the current president of the Silver Commerce Society and the 120th-generation grandson of the ancestor Silver Coin. I would like to hire you, summoner, my lord, to protect me as I travel to the Land of Equality. I can pay a commission of 20,000 soul crystals. Is that acceptable?"

Xiao Gu tilted his head, looked at his nursery, and then looked at Yin Ding. Although he didn't know what the Land of Equality was and soul crystals were of no use to him, he still nodded.

Silver Coin's descendant was in danger; even if there were no commission, he would still protect him.

Seeing Xiao Gu agree so readily, Yin Ding breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully, "Thank you, my lord. We set off tomorrow. By convention, half the commission is paid first, and the balance is paid upon arrival at the destination. This is 10,000 soul crystals."

Yin Ding took a bag out of the carriage, which contained 10,000 soul crystals.

Xiao Gu carried the bag back to the seedling field, first stuffing a soul crystal into the giant bird's eye socket, and then stuffing the rest into his palm.

As Ang's tree-planting skeleton, how could he not have storage space on his body? Xiao Gu had a very large storage space in his palm that could hold many things.

He continued to plant the remaining saplings. With the "Rapid Death" ability, Xiao Gu had nurtured several bundles of saplings, all of which had roots, and the survival rate was very high.

Yin Ding and the two guards lit a bonfire far away, using the carriage to block the night wind, and lay half-reclined on blankets in the sheltered spot, preparing to sleep for a while. After a day of traveling and experiencing a violent change at night, they were already exhausted; if they didn't sleep for a while, they wouldn't have any energy tomorrow.

However, although they were lying down, Yin Ding and the guards clearly had no sleepiness and were very alert. Yin Ding cast his gaze toward Xiao Gu's direction from time to time with a thoughtful expression.

The guard Gang Ya couldn't help but whisper, "Boss, why did you spend so much money to hire a death summoner? Is he worth that much money? 20,000 soul crystals is enough to hire an army."

Yin Ding said, "An army can be hired, but can they be trusted? It would be good enough if they didn't rob us and bury us when the time comes."

Gang Ya said, "That's right, trust. Is this death summoner more trustworthy than an army? That summoner hasn't shown his face from beginning to end, letting this skeleton stand in front. What if he quietly cuts us down when the time comes?"

Yin Ding didn't know how to explain. Should he tell the guard, "It was the clan teachings that gave me inspiration"?

He could only explain from another angle: "We have no other choice. There are only three of us left now. Relying only on you two, it is impossible to protect me to the Land of Equality. The Land of Equality is the only hope for the Commerce Society to make a comeback. We can only gamble. I believe in my eyes; I won't misjudge people. This summoner is worthy of trust."

Gang Ya scoffed, "Boss, do you even know what his name is?"

Yin Ding opened his mouth and was left embarrassed. Oh right, he had actually forgotten to ask the other party's name?

However, as a businessman, what was embarrassment? Yin Ding shifted the topic without a sound: "Hey, your eyesight is good. Look at the skeleton. Where did it put the bag? Did it bury it?"

"No, I didn't see it dig a big hole. The bag is gone. Was it moved by someone else? Did you see anything?"

After being suspicious for half the night, dawn broke.

As soon as the sun came out, the giant bird couldn't wait to assemble its body and run around the field as a bipedal giant bird. Being scattered at night had stifled it to death. It hadn't felt it before, but once it had tasted the joy of running, it couldn't bear to return to the state of only being able to nudge forward with its lower jaw.

Yin Ding and the two guards were woken up by the noise and looked at the bipedal giant bird flying and snatching outside the field, stunned: "This is... the skull we picked up yesterday? So it has legs? We almost used it to make soup."

When the three of them were packed and ready to hit the road, Xiao Gu carried his bone club, rode on the bipedal giant bird, and followed behind the carriage.

Seeing this, Yin Ding knew that "that summoner" was still not planning to show his face, and he felt some worry in his heart. However, there was no "that summoner" to begin with; no matter how worried he was, Xiao Gu couldn't conjure one up.

Soon they entered the desert and walked toward the depths of the desert.

Their current location was actually already within the range of the desert. Sand Creek Town was a small town built in the desert, and because the Sand Creek River flowed through it, it did not lack water.

But because the sandy soil had poor water retention, the surface was very arid, making it impossible to grow food crops; one could only plant things like desert dates and sea buckthorn, or some root plants buried deep in the sand.

However, food was usually not abundant, and it required the old captain to go to the Starburst Array in the sky every month to stock up. The airship flew to the Starburst Array, which was closer than flying to the nearest big city, because the nearest big city was over a thousand kilometers away, while the Starburst Array was only four or five hundred kilometers from the ground.

Because of the airships, the desert was not a forbidden zone devoid of human habitation; instead, some villages and small towns were scattered sparsely, with residents mainly relying on mining and hunting for a living, and most of their food coming from outside transport.

However, these were all on the edge of the desert. Entering the center of the desert, there was a zone of abnormally high temperature, known as the Sea of Death.

Crossing the Sea of Death, one reached a position on the edge of the map where sunlight could not reach. Crossing over that, one arrived at the dark side of the world, a region that never had sunlight shining upon it.

The boundary had a plane barrier, which airships could not approach, so one had to walk across from the ground. Yin Ding's destination was the Land of Equality on the dark side, where the wealth and power left behind by his ancestor Silver Coin were located, enough wealth for Yin Ding to rebuild over a dozen Silver Commerce Societies.

It had to be said that Ang had created a very peculiar world: a sunny side similar to the main plane and a dark side similar to the Abyss plane, connected together without any obstacles.

Except for a plane barrier at the boundary, there was nothing blocking the two sides. Even the plane barrier only restricted flying units like airships; it was completely possible to walk across from the ground.

Because of gravity, you didn't even feel that you had flipped over; you just walked and walked, and it got dark, then you walked and walked, and why didn't it get bright? Oh, you had reached the dark side.

Everyone was lucky; they didn't encounter any danger along the way, easily crossed to the dark side, and entered the legendary Land of Equality.

According to legend, this was a place carved out by the divine power of the God of Equality and Scales. Because it was so level, one could not see any ups and downs on the surface, just like it had been paved with floor tiles.

If you poured oil on it and fell, you might be able to slide from one end to the other. Naturally, there couldn't be any living things in such a place; not even a blade of grass grew.

"I need to find a magic array here," Yin Ding said.

"Pfft—a magic array? When will we find that?" Upon hearing this, the two guards almost went crazy. Gang Ya asked, "Are there any conspicuous features? Will it glow? Or is it just a magic array carved on the ground?"

The Land of Equality looked extremely flat as far as the eye could see, but its area was not small at all, possibly the size of one-third of the desert.

It had taken them over ten days to cross the desert. Searching for a magic array in such a large area—if the array glowed, it would be fine, but if it were just an ordinary array carved on the ground, the workload would be huge.

Yin Ding smiled slightly, "How could my ancestor be so stupid?"

As he spoke, he took out a silver coin, placed it vertically on the ground, and then rolled it forward.

Xiao Gu tilted his head. The kind of silver coin Yin Ding took out was so familiar; it seemed to be the same kind that the goblin Silver Coin had given him, though the material seemed a bit different.

The silver coin rolled forward, rolling and rolling, without falling, just rolling forward like a wheel.

It swayed from side to side as it rolled. Everyone followed it for a long time, rolling like this for a full three hours, when the silver coin suddenly stopped swaying and rolled straight in a certain direction. After rolling for another hour, it finally stopped, spun a few times, and fell to the ground.

There were clear lines on the ground, outlining a large magic array. The place where the silver coin stopped was precisely the core of the magic array.

Yin Ding only felt that his ancestor was very amazing, but Adams inside the bone club was an expert and was almost scared to death at this moment: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could it be so precise? Even a god couldn't do it, right? An area of several hundred square kilometers, with an error of only a few millimeters?"

"It definitely wasn't made; unless one has the ability to measure dimensions at a glance, it's impossible to be this precise. Someone must have discovered this flat terrain, then thrown a bunch of balls onto the ground, let them roll to the lowest point themselves, and then built the magic array at the lowest point. It must be this way, it must be this way," Adams quickly thought of a reasonable explanation.