Life Going Wild With Plug-Ins
However, I don’t know where to buy a shadow guard.
I’ve lived this long, but I have still never seen a single shop in my whole life!
The intricate buildings were so hard to navigate, yet there are no road signs. Life in the previous era really must not have been easy. Fortunately, I was resourceful and asked a cultivator on the roadside. The cultivator looked at me and said, ” Such a noble youth, you must have many servants, are you looking for a shadow guard?”
Not sure if I translated this correctly 幸而我机智地问了路边的一位祖先，那人打量了我两眼：“这么贵气的少爷，仆从肯定不缺，想必是来买影卫的吧？ but I looked at the manhua, so couldn’t have been too far off…….right?
……What’s the difference?
However, I am the creator and do not wish to expose that I know less than passer by. I nodded profoundly and said, “Yes.” The cultivator said, “What luck, there is a branch of Nightrunners right up ahead. Although, it is only a branch and the guards are not as good, it is still Nightrunners.
I just reread 26 chapters of the manhua to figure out it was called Nightrunners…
After giving thanks, I asked the passer by along the way and understood some things: besides the individual aristocratic families that raised shadow guards from childhood, there were also many private specialized institutions that raised them to hire out. Among the institutions, the Nightrunners are hard to come by and are very well known for their excellent shadow guards, unique company culture, and actually provide after sales service.
Not sure if I did this right 民间也有不少专门培训侍卫实现再就业的机构 and this 并且居然还负责售后服务的公司。
Looks like, the Nightrunners are at the forefront of the shadow guard industry.
It points to a tree stump next to Sha county’s snack gate. There was a hole in the tree stump with a painted new moon.
Dunno what Sha county’s snack gate is….
It really is too hard to find! Do they even have customers!?
What is this marketing ability, I find it quite bad.
I, the creator god, dropped myself down the hole and slid a long way. The bottom of the cave was pitch black and there was an old lady that held a lamp. She extended her and to me and asked, “Do you have a token?”
A girl that looked like she worked at a shampoo shop asked, “Do you have a membership card?”
I feel like I’m missing a metaphor here, but I live under a rock, sooo….
Definitely not.
I shook my head hard.
“In that case, you can only take a look at the goods on the ground.” The lady took back her hand and softly knocked on the table. There was a gust of wind and I was thrown out before I could see a person.
A person with an expressionless face appeared from the wind and hinted to me with the wave of a hand. I simply followed the person clumsily and we entered a guest house.
客栈 = tavern / guest house / inn / hotel so idk what to put
The guest house had tables to one side, and to another side, there was a gathering of people. They were all pinching their feet and chit chatting, like workers that were waiting to be hired. Seeing me enter the room, they stared blankly at me and sized me up.
“It leaves only them, young master can pick whichever. Tell the shopkeeper when you pick one.” After talking, the person raised the wind and disappeared.
……Ok!! What good brand image! I say the company culture is good!! I twisted my brain looking for the handsome guards like in dramas, but there were only rough, course men, what’s going on!!
The shopkeeper is a scholarly youth, he shook his abacus and called over to greet me, “This young master is not a familiar face. Are you, perhaps, new to Changlou?”
My flamboyant appearance gave off the look of a local tyrant. The rough men looked like hungry wolves ready to move. It scared me so much that I took a couple steps back.
“Since you came at night, I am assuming that young master is here for a shadow guard? This little shop is known for shadow guards, however, we also have some part-time servants. Young master must be laughing.”
Oh, this person is called Xiao Ke. This name is quite realistic, just like the mascot of a magical girl.
Xiao Ke= Something like unimporrant person
And as for the magical girl thing, I have no idea since I haven’t seen one of those in so many years….
When he mentioned this, I noticed that besides the rough men in front of me, further inside, there was also a few people in black clothes. They were either sitting or standing, but they were very alert with an imposing aura. Their swords did not leave their hands.
There was one person huddled in the corner, his silhouette covered by darkness. I couldn’t see his face.
“The price of a shadow guard from the Nightrunners is not cheap.” The shopkeeper stopped speaking and gave a short laugh, “But, young master looks like a very expensive person, naturally, it shouldn’t be a problem. I ask you to please pick whichever one you like.”
“What are the prices?” I asked, unhurriedly
“Because once a shadow guard is bought, they are employed for life, it is a buyout. The two on the right are both new arrivals, so they are both 3000 taels. The three on the left are all more experienced, so they are 2000 taels, 4000 taels, and 4500 taels, respectively.
……Surely, it feels like I am picking cabbage!
These prices, they are indeed not cheap, it would be multiple years of pay for a normal household. Even speaking for a rich household, if they were buying multiple shadow guards, it would also be quite a hit to their resources.
However, I am not short of money. I can use plug-ins, I can change the amount of money I have as I wish.
Thinking of this, the corners of my mouth curved up and I laughed profoundly and mysteriously. I slowly walked in front of the shadow guards and looked at each one. Unhurriedly, I recalled the code for the money plug-in and I lazily started to think about where the code input was.
However, there is no input box!!! How do I open this plug-in!! There’s also no ESC key, ah!! What are you doing, ah!!!!!!
This is is too ridiculous for me to look at, I don’t dare to look. In pain, I held my head and squatted down.
“Ah! Young master, that one, that one……that one won’t do, ah……”
Eh?
I raised my head ans saw a ball of cloth…..Oh, no, a person. It turns out, I walked past that group of shadow guards and came to that person curled up on the floor in the corner. Not only were his clothes ragged, but where the cloth was torn, there was dry, congealed, black filth sticking to his body.
There was also a strange smell.
“How much money is this one?” Why is this one not good, could it be that he is excessively expensive?
“That one……” The shopkeeper pondered in silence, “Is free.”
Eh~!
My mood instantly turned very good.
“You don’t need to pay for him, just the Nightrunner service charge of 1 tael. The Nightrunners don’t want to trick you, this person, he…….is a useless person.”
“He is still a shadow guard?”
“Yes. But-“
“Just him then.” I nodded, satisfied.
The letter said that I have to buy a shadow guard, but it never said I had to buy a good one. Just buying one good enough is fine for me.
If worse comes to worse, next time, I’ll just buy a new one.
T/N
Hehe, ML has appeared!!! YAYY!!
Actually, I’m just glad I didn’t keep procrastinating today…hehe
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